A Small plane has crashed into the sea in the area known as Coveta Fuma, Alicante. A man from the town of El Campello has died and his body has been recovered from the sea by rescue personnel, according to Marine Salvage sources.

Sources of the Provincial Fire Consortium have indicated that “he was not travelling with any other person”. Sources from the airport of El Altet have said that, according to the flight plan, the stricken plane had taken off from “somewhere in the province of Castellón” bound for Almeria.

The incident occurred between 1215 and 1230 hours when, for reasons still unknown, the plane crashed into the sea, some 75 yards offshore, according to the Provincial Fire Consortium.

Two helicopter rescue team members of the Provincial Council of Alicante, one of which was winched down to the crashed plane and saw that the cabin was empty.

Subsequently, a Maritime Rescue boat was mobilized and shortly after discovered the body of the pilot, who has been transferred to land by helicopter.

Municipal sources have told Efe that a local of the area saw that the engine had stalled as the plane was gliding silently and losing altitude, then ultimately crashed in a creek next to the Barranco de les Aigues.