{"id":17480,"date":"2022-02-06T13:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T07:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=17480"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T07:44:58","slug":"missing-tourist-plane-found-at-bottom-of-lake-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/06\/missing-tourist-plane-found-at-bottom-of-lake-in-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Tourist Plane Found At Bottom Of Lake In Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>Authorities in Iceland have found a small plane at the bottom of a lake two days after the aircraft went missing with three tourists and a pilot on board, police said on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kangirsuk.jpg\" alt=\"Missing Tourist Plane Found At Bottom Of Lake In Iceland\" class=\"wp-image-17482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kangirsuk.jpg 468w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kangirsuk-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kangirsuk-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kangirsuk-350x250.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The three tourists on the <a href=\"http:\/\/Cessna.com\">Cessna<\/a> 172N plane &#8211; who departed for a sightseeing tour on Thursday &#8211; were from Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States, Iceland&#8217;s Morgunbladid newspaper reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Iceland&#8217;s coastguard said in a statement <\/strong><em>the plane crashed into Lake Thingvallavatn some 40 km (25 miles) east of the capital, Reykjavik, and was located with the help of an unmanned submarine.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plane has not been pulled to the surface and no bodies have yet been recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dutch Foreign Ministry told news agency Reuters <strong><em>it had been informed by the airline company that a 27-year-old Dutch man living in Belgium was on the plane when it disappeared.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"806\" height=\"378\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/806x378-missing-tourist-plane-found-at-bottom-of-lake-in-iceland-1644082204045.jpeg\" alt=\"Missing Tourist Plane Found At Bottom Of Lake In Iceland\" class=\"wp-image-17483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/806x378-missing-tourist-plane-found-at-bottom-of-lake-in-iceland-1644082204045.jpeg 806w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/806x378-missing-tourist-plane-found-at-bottom-of-lake-in-iceland-1644082204045-600x281.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/806x378-missing-tourist-plane-found-at-bottom-of-lake-in-iceland-1644082204045-300x141.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/806x378-missing-tourist-plane-found-at-bottom-of-lake-in-iceland-1644082204045-768x360.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/806x378-missing-tourist-plane-found-at-bottom-of-lake-in-iceland-1644082204045-750x352.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Coastguard officials could not immediately confirm the nationalities of the two other missing passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned and updated with Aviationa2z.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Iceland have found a small plane at the bottom of a lake two days after the aircraft went missing with three tourists <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761],"tags":[5283,5284,227,2253,5282,5281],"class_list":{"0":"post-17480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bottom-of-lake","9":"tag-iceland","10":"tag-pilot","11":"tag-police","12":"tag-spotted","13":"tag-tourist-plane"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17484,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480\/revisions\/17484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}