The RSG Group of gym outlets, including Gold’s Gym and McFit, confirmed Monday that founder and CEO Rainer Schaller, family, and friends were aboard a small plane that disappeared from radar just off Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast.
The company issued a statement confirming that Rainer Schaller, his family, and two other people were on board the aircraft at the time of the crash. The company did not confirm his death, despite the fact searchers have found two bodies, luggage, and pieces of the aircraft in the sea.
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We are shocked, stunned, and full of grief about this tragic accident, the RSG statement read. The news during the last few days has shaken us deeply, and our thoughts are with the family in these difficult hours.
As the situation is currently still being investigated on-site, we cannot comment further at this time and ask for your understanding.
Schaller is listed as the Founder, Owner, and CEO of the RSG Group, a conglomerate of 21 fitness, lifestyle, and fashion brands that operates in 48 countries and has 41,000 employees, either directly or through franchises.
On Sunday, Costa Rica’s Security Ministry said the bodies of one adult and one child had been found at a site about 17 miles (28 kilometers) off the coast from the Limon airport but said the bodies had not yet been identified.
On 21 October 2022, a Piaggio P.180 Avanti plane carrying Schaller, his partner Christine Schikorsky, and Schikorsky’s two children crashed into the Caribbean Sea near Limón, Costa Rica, while on a flight from Palenque, Mexico. All six occupants of the aircraft are assumed to have died in the crash.
