A small plane crashed on Monday in a forest area in the Swabian district of Ostallgäu.
Two people were seriously injured.
Forest
- According to initial information, two people were seriously injured in the crash of a small airplane near the community of Wald in Ostallgäu on Monday, September 27.
As the local police reported, the two-person microlight had lost altitude over the community at around 6 p.m. on Monday evening.
It is said to have moved on "in an unsafe manner of flight", reports the
Allgäuer Zeitung
, among others
.
A little later, the plane is said to have brushed against a tree.
It then fell on a meadow.
Since this was adjacent to a forest, some parts of the wreck got caught in the treetops.
The aircraft was badly damaged, especially in the front area.
Plane crash near Wald in Ostallgäu: cause still unclear
The circumstances of the accident are so far unknown. It is also still unclear whether the pilot wanted to make an emergency landing in the field or whether the aircraft had already become uncontrollable at this point in time. The police, rescue workers and fire brigades were deployed for a large-scale operation around 6 p.m. Of the two occupants of the aircraft, who presumably come from the Oberallgäu area, one was seriously injured and the other was critically injured. They came to the surrounding clinics. A rescue helicopter was also on site, reports the
Südwest Presse.
Now the criminal police are investigating the circumstances of the accident on behalf of the public prosecutor's office.
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