The incident was the second to affect a parachutists’ flight after a similar disaster in the country in 2019.
A small propeller plane crashed Thursday evening in Sweden soon after taking off from an airport in Orebro, west of Stockholm, killing the nine people onboard — eight sky divers and the pilot. The crash is the second fatal accident in two years to involve sky divers or parachutists. In 2019, a plane crashed on a small island in northern Sweden killing nine people onboard, eight of them members of a parachute club. The local police received reports at around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday that the plane, a DHC-2 Turbo Beaver, which had been rented by a local sky-diving club, according to local news reports, had crashed near the runway shortly after taking off.
