After the crash in front of the G7 summit: the plane was recovered – "Anger Doctor" survived the fourth crash landing

Created: 07/01/2022, 19:03

By: Catherine Bromberger

The ultralight aircraft stands between spruce trees.

The five helpers need about five hours until the machine is recovered and ready for transport at Ferchensee.

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Shortly before the G7 summit, Thomas Unden crashed near Schloss Elmau.

Now the Viennese and his helpers have recovered the plane.

This time without a large police force.

Unden probably wouldn't have bothered.

The pilot with the crude political views would certainly have had a few things to say to the officials.

Mittenwald – Three hours, says Thomas Unden, the gentlemen from the police questioned him.

They wanted to know if he was an assassin.

He thought it was difficult, the officials should imagine it: the joystick in one hand and a bomb in the other hand.

"It's really hard on the joints." But one thing, he emphasizes, he's already said to the gentlemen: "If Putin thinks about it, he'll throw two bombs at them down there, then I'll open a bottle of Taittinger." A bottle of the "good old" champagne.

Yes, Unden emphasizes again, he made that clear during the interrogation.

Six days before the G7 summit, shortly after his microlight crashed into a forest, just two and a half kilometers from the Schloss Elmau conference hotel.

Thomas Unden has survived another plane crash – it was his fourth.

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Unden doesn't value politically correct expressions, that much is quickly clear from a conversation with him.

He is certainly not a fan of the heads of state or government either – he prefers to refer to the G7 politicians as “Anglican-Zionist Freemasons”.

And the views of the Viennese, who has already published the SS motto "My honor is loyalty" on Facebook and classifies it as a "highly humanistic ideal", can confidently - and to put it diplomatically - be described as controversial.

But apparently the police officers didn't think he was dangerous.

Anyway, they let him go.

On Thursday he came back to Mittenwald to save his red dotted Leopold with five helpers.

Forest owner Schwind follows rescue operation: glad that no one was injured

Michael Schwind accompanies the campaign from the start.

The plane crashed into his forest above the Ferchensee.

Pilot Unden tried to place it as horizontally as possible on the treetops.

After that, it slid down about 20 meters through the spruce trees, "like when you drive your car between the brushes of a car wash".

This is how he describes the last meters before the impact on Thursday.

You can hear the chainsaws in the background.

The helpers have to cut out three large spruce trees, a good 15 meters high, in order to free the plane, as well as other small trees.

Schwind takes it easy.

The damage, which the CSU local council cannot quantify, will be covered by the insurance company.

Above all, he is happy that everything went quite smoothly, no petrol spilled,

On Monday, June 20, Unden and his son Gregor started having problems.

The pilot doesn't know why.

At about 8,000 feet, the current dropped, resulting in an "impossible to fly condition."

At around six meters per second and using an emergency parachute, the two fell, but were completely uninjured.

The plane, on the other hand, was badly battered.

Crashed just two hours after buying the plane

A flight instructor and pilot who is in charge of the salvage judged Schwind on the spot: The plane was a total loss.

Destroyed on his first flight with the Undens.

Because they had bought it just two hours before the accident in the Swiss canton of Aargau for 18,500 euros.

Thomas Unden has not yet said goodbye to his machine.

A good friend should first look at it and judge whether it's worth repairing - the Viennese like to call it "revitalization" - or whether the only option left is to dismantle and sell piecemeal.

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The Austrians attach the machine to the front loader, they have to carry the rear.

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The 60-year-old gives his mechanic friend a lot of work.

He is currently taking care of Unden's second plane, an American machine, the Aero Commander 100, a four-seater.

In October he crashed with it in the Tauern.

Engine failure on approach.

Unden steered the plane into a Gugaruz field – as the Viennese call the corn – and rolled over a few times on the ground when it touched down.

Nothing happened again, not even his companion and the dog on board, "he just looked really angry".

Elaborate salvage operation: After five hours, the plane is at Frechensee

Accidents don't throw him off course, they don't even make him nervous.

He has experienced too many and seen too much for that.

In the Libyan civil war he worked as a doctor and was shot, he also claims to have looked after the Gaddafi family, two more, so a total of four, he survived plane crashes.

The Mittenwald event – ​​a side note.

Despite interrogation and costly salvage operation.

Schwind supports the squad, bringing their tools with his pickup truck 500 meters up the steep road towards the scene of the accident.

The five Austrians start around 1 p.m.

Unden is apparently too shattered to help out a lot himself.

After about five hours, the disassembled plane – they unscrewed the wings – is at the Gasthof Ferchensee.

A farmer from Mittenwald came specially with his front loader.

They hung up the front and the salvage team carried the fuselage.

Finally, on Friday afternoon, the Austrians set off for home with the 240-kilogram plane in their luggage.

Unden estimates that they need seven to eight hours to get to Carinthia, where they first park Leopold.

Hit the headlines as the “anger doctor”: Unden did not treat any refugees

Schwind describes the Viennese as nice and friendly, as is the case with Unden in the Tagblatt interview.

But he can do it differently.

In 2016 he hit the headlines in Austria as a "rage doctor".

He had refused to treat refugees in his practice in the 21st district of Vienna, Floridsdorf.

He didn't understand them, he argued at the time.

Above all, he emphasizes today, he did not see that the general public should pay for it through the health insurance companies.

The medical association imposed a professional ban.

Unden stands by his attitude.

He thinks it's wrong to call him a racist because of that.

He isn't.

You could talk to the 60-year-old for hours about what he considers to be a sick system.

In short: he will no longer work for this state, although his professional ban was lifted by court judgment in 2019.

But he doesn't want to pay a cent more taxes for this country.

So he has time.

time to fly.

Because Unden, who has been a pilot in the cockpit since he was 17, will not stop with that – a completely absurd idea for him.

Despite his second crash landing in eight months.

"Since I don't want to die in bed, I'll fly as long as I can stay seated.

Or until my last crash.”