Actor Christian Oliver and his two young daughters were tragically killed in a plane crash in the Caribbean on Saturday (NZT). Photo / Antigua and Barbuda Broadcasting Services. Inset photo / FilmMagic
Christian Oliver, a German-born Hollywood actor who starred in Speed Racer and Ready or Not, and his two daughters were tragically killed after the plane they were flying in “plummeted into the ocean” near a Caribbean island today (NZT), according to reports from officials.
The actor, born Christian
Klepser, was travelling on the plane with his daughters Madita, 10, and Annik, 12, and their pilot, Robert Sachs, when they all lost their lives in the downed plane.
The Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police said that the single-engine plane “experienced difficulties and plummeted into the ocean” as the family travelled to St. Lucia from the island of Bequia.
Sachs sent an emergency message to Bequia’s control tower to inform them of issues and his intention to return to the island. However, this was the last message received before the plane, which Sachs also owned, fell out of the sky and into the water, as reported by local outlet Searchlight.
The tragic moment when the plane nosedived from the sky and into the ocean was recorded by an onlooker on their cellphone.
