Crash in Gießen: Pilot survives with serious injuries

Created: 05/16/2022, 10:09 am

In Gießen, a glider is completely destroyed after a crash - the pilot is taken to a hospital.

© Alexander Stripling

A glider crashed over a meadow in Gießen.

How the accident happened, in which the pilot was seriously injured, is still unclear.

Gießen – A glider crashed in the Rödgen district of Gießen on Sunday afternoon (May 15).

The pilot suffered serious injuries and had to be taken to a hospital. 

The small, non-motorized glider took off at around 1:00 p.m. from the Gießen-Wieseck airfield of the Gießen Aviation Club.

A 48-year-old man from Gießen was behind the wheel.

According to initial findings by the police, the pilot began to spin, turned left and crashed into an orchard near Steinacker with the small aircraft at around 1:20 p.m., as reported by giessener-allgemeine.de.

Accident in Gießen: glider pilot seriously injured in the crash

The glider was totally destroyed, the man suffered serious injuries, was treated on site by the rescue service and taken to a clinic. 

The cause of the crash is currently being investigated by the police, and the crash site has been cordoned off.

The emergency services of the professional fire brigade provided help in the rescue.

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Only recently there was a serious accident in Schotten (Vogelsbergkreis), in which a plane overturned.