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Small plane crashes in kindergarten in Bavaria: pilot dies in wreckage - presumption of the cause

2021-03-17T13:49:45.928Z


A small plane crashed in northern Bavaria and the pilot was killed. Investigate the public prosecutor and the police. Now there is a first guess as to the cause.


A small plane crashed in northern Bavaria and the pilot was killed.

Investigate the public prosecutor and the police.

Now there is a first guess as to the cause.

Update from March 17, 2:21 p.m.:

In the north of Bavaria, a small plane crashed on Tuesday, the pilot was killed (see first report).

At the crash site - on a kindergarten site - rubble was scattered around.

A change in the weather could now have become doomed for the experienced pilot, who had been in the air for more than 40 years.

A sudden snow storm could be the cause of the fatal crash.

"While the pilot was in the air and had already prepared for the landing, suddenly a snowstorm came up," quoted the German press agency Tanja Adamski from the airport there.

“It may well be that the crash was related to it.” Shortly before, the conditions were ideal.

“He was a very experienced pilot.

He was a member of our board of directors and was on the road several times a week, probably for over 40 years. "

Pilot dies after small plane crash in Bavaria: "We are totally shocked"

On Tuesday he set out on a sightseeing flight at the Feuerstein Castle airfield, in constant radio contact with the flight director.

“He followed him on the screen - until the very end.

We are totally shocked, "said the manager of the flight school.

The police and the public prosecutor's office determined on Wednesday why the 64-year-old lost control the evening before and had a fatal accident in the garden of a kindergarten.

"An expert looks at the wreck again and we evaluate a lot of data," said a police spokesman.

In fact, it was very wintry and foggy at the time.

Pilot dies in crash on kindergarten - "broken glass everywhere"

According to the investigators, the man died in the crash.

The kindergarten area had already been abandoned at the time of the accident.

Around 120 emergency services were deployed, including a crisis intervention team and experts from the Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation.

They recovered the wreck that night.



The kindergarten will still be able to reopen next week at the earliest, said the deputy director Anna Amon.

“The large window front in a group room is splintered into millions of pieces.

Everywhere between the toys there are broken pieces, which is dangerous for small children. ”There are still smaller wreckage in the sandpit, and some trees would probably have to be felled.

The soil could also be contaminated with fuel, Amon said.

"We also look around for new rooms if the work takes longer."

Pilot dies in plane crash in Bavaria: fourth flight accident on site within three weeks

The crash was the quarter of an aircraft accident on site within three weeks.

"It has nothing to do with the airport, it could have happened anywhere," said Adamski.

A pilot did not extend the landing gear, a glider got stuck in the treetops and an accident occurred due to a material defect.

The pilots were all unharmed.

The fatal accident on Tuesday was by no means careless, as the manager of the flight school explained. "The pilot knew the airfield and the surrounding area like the back of his hand."

Small plane crashed in Bavaria: the pilot dies - the cause of the accident is still unclear

Update from March 17, 8:48 a.m

.: After a small

plane

crashed on the grounds of a kindergarten in Ebermannstadt in Upper Franconia, the cause of the accident is still unclear.

An expert from the Federal Office for Aircraft Accident Investigation has already arrived.

A spokesman for the Upper Franconian police headquarters said on Wednesday.

The single-engine machine crashed early Tuesday evening, killing the 64-year-old pilot

(see first report)

.

The police spokesman was initially unable to say how the investigations are being continued by the criminal police and the public prosecutor's office.

Bavaria: small plane crashes in kindergarten area - pilot dies in a demolished wreck

First report from March 16:

Ebermannstadt - In Upper Franconia, a small plane crashed on Tuesday evening - on the grounds of a kindergarten.

The 64-year-old pilot died in the completely destroyed wreck, the police said on Tuesday.

The single-engine small plane crashed in the afternoon outside the Kindergarten at Burg Feuerstein in Ebermannstadt (Forchheim district).

Why was initially unclear - the criminal police and public prosecutor's office in Bamberg are investigating.

Bamberg / Ebermannstadt: small plane crashes in kindergarten - pilot dies in the wreck

A first emergency call was received around 5.45 p.m., it said.

A total of 120 rescue workers were on duty.

For the pilot of the machine, however, any help came too late.

The plane had come to rest on the roof.

Fortunately, there were no children on the premises.

The accident recording and recovery of the wreck continued in the evening.

A police helicopter supported from the air, it was said.

At the behest of a public prosecutor, an expert from the Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation is also to be called in.

Further details were initially not known.

Also in Franconia, a small plane crashed at the end of 2020.

The pilot was also killed in this accident.

(

dpa / fn

)

Source: merkur

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