Plane vanishes after taking off and sends out Mayday alert

Swedish relief workers raced to the scene after the plane sent out a mayday call roughly 15 miles away from the Norwegian border where it was flying from Heathrow Airport.

The Canadair CRJ 200 had caused alarm after not making contact since it sent out the distress signal between Norway’s Lake Akkajaure and the Swedish Lapland Mountains.

Emergency services – including mountain rescue crews – scrambled to find the plane which dissapeared from radar 75 miles from Bodo, Sweden. The wreckage was later found by a Norwegian F-16.

Two Europeans are believed to have been on board the Swedish registered postal flight, which was travelling to Tromso, Norway.

The jet had taken off from Norwegian capital Oslo before vanishing from the radar.
Earlier reports suggested it had started its journey from Heathrow, but these have been corrected.

Culled from Daily Star