Ex-fighter pilot and 13-year-old son feared killed in Majorca plane crash
Specialist police divers are continuing to search for the pair after locating the plane's wreckage.
The two-seater Team Rocket F-4 Raider sport plane was seen crashing into the sea near the tourist town of Soller just after 8pm yesterday.
It had earlier been spotted doing air acrobatics including 360-degree turns.
The plane's pilot is thought to be a former American military combat pilot aged around 60 who lives in Germany and has a holiday home in Majorca.
His 13-year-old child was reported to be the plane's other passenger, according to Majorcan daily Ultima Hora.
He is understood to currently work as a commercial pilot. More Trending
Police have not yet made any official comment about the identities and nationalities of the confirmed two occupants of the plane.
A spokesman for the Civil Guard said: 'The search for two occupants is continuing this morning following the plane accident yesterday evening.
'The accident happened around 8pm opposite the Soller lighthouse and in waters about 30 metres deep.
'Specialists from the Civil Guard's elite GEA diving unit, the Maritime Service and the Air Service are still conducting a search.'
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