Shortly after take-off, an airplane with four people on board crashed into a swimming lake.
One person was critically injured in the accident in Oberallgäu.
Sulzberg - A tragic accident occurred on Sunday in Oberallgäu: Shortly after take-off, a small plane crashed into a swimming lake.
One inmate was critically injured.
Accident in Oberallgäu: small plane sinks into the sea - no bathers affected
The plane with four people on board took off from a small airport on Sulzberger See in early summer temperatures.
But it only got a few kilometers at most - before it crashed and sank into the bathing lake.
This is reported by a police spokesman in Kempten.
Fortunately, bathers were not affected.
"There was nothing going on, no bathing operations yet," said the official.
The pilot stated that the cause of the accident was problems at takeoff.
Two people on the plane were slightly injured.
One of the inmates was in mortal danger after the accident on Sunday afternoon, the police spokesman confirmed.
After a plane crash in the Allgäu: inmates rescued with a rubber dinghy
There was at least one woman among the four people in the machine.
There is no further information on those affected yet.
The injured were rescued with rubber dinghies and the small plane sank in the floods.
It is now to be recovered.
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