It was a father hand his son (high school age). Both from Bergen, Norway. The aircraft looks to be a hombuilt experimental (from pictures, but could be wrong), now registered in Spain.
This is the last ATC recording. He was at 5000ft talking to Eelde Approach. Further to the West there’s the Schiphol TMA which is complicated airspace. VFR you need to descend to remain below class A airspace.
My take on this is that the aircraft got VFR in IMC and lost control. That or inflight breakup.
lenthamen wrote:
Schiphol TMA which is complicated airspace. VFR you need to descend to remain below class A airspace.
Definitely not the right airspace for VFR in marginal weather, airspace is busy and ATC are rigid as rocks !
Not the best place to fly IFR in SEP and request avoidance, I had one interesting experience after asking for descent to FL60 down that corner…
Apparently they entered Schiphol controlled airspace and a police helicopter was dispatched to intercept them, but the helicopter was unable to keep pace. [Norwegian source] (They probably had no idea they were being intercepted…)
They have found father and son, what a sad outcome. https://nos.nl/l/2433365
