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A Cessna goes missing in the Tyrolean Alps. Their destination was apparently an airfield in the Allgäu (symbolic image). © Tetra Images
A small plane that was apparently traveling from Rome to the Allgäu region has disappeared in the Tyrolean Alps. Emergency services are looking for the Cessna.
Bad Wörishofen / Sölden – Since last Saturday, emergency services have been searching in the Tyrolean Alps for a missing Cessna, which was probably on the return flight from Rome to Bad Wörishofen (Unterallgäu district). Since then, bad weather has hampered the rescuers' work.
Plane disappeared on the way to Allgäu: Big search for Cessna in the Tyrolean Alps
On Holy Saturday, the German pilot got into the Cessna 172 with the registration D-EFCC and took off from an airport near Rome towards Germany. But he was never supposed to get there.
The previous Monday, the man, who according to current knowledge was traveling alone, took off from Bad Wörishofen airfield towards Rome, as Günter Schmid, owner of the airfield, told our newspaper when asked. However, he does not want to comment further and does not want to take part in the speculation about the whereabouts of the aircraft. “We just hope that something is found,” he says, referring to the bad weather that prevailed on the day of the accident and continues to this day.
Missing plane: Storms make the search for the Cessna difficult
You can follow the fateful flight on the “Flightradar24” website (as of April 2nd). Just a few minutes after takeoff, the white and blue small aircraft, which is privately owned, disappeared from the online service's radar; It reappears 40 minutes later, before recordings of the flight northeast of Trent end on “Flightradar24” around two hours after takeoff.
But that's not the last sign of life there was from the pilot. According to Austro Control, the Austrian civil aviation company, contact with the German was lost northeast of Sölden in the Imst district. This is confirmed by Colonel Manfred Dummer from the Tyrol State Police Directorate. The head of the public relations office explains that the previous sighting flights had to be canceled due to weather conditions, especially strong winds. He also announced that the search area “was expanded based on witness statements” and now includes the Ötztal, Pitztal and Sellraintal.
Missing Cessna: No distress signal from the aircraft
The bad weather on Holy Saturday and why the pilot took off for Germany with his plane is also a widely discussed topic in various internet forums. The website
www. Flugzeugforum.de
reports of a pilot who “flew from Croatia to southern Germany” on March 30th. It is said that during his flight he was “shocked really badly”. It can also be read that the pilot was asked by air traffic control “whether he could hear an ELT signal or had heard it on the way, which he replied in the negative.”
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An ELT (emergency locator transmitter) is a safety device in aviation and is mandatory in Germany. In the event of a plane crash, the device sends out an emergency signal to make it easier to locate and rescue the occupants. So far, however, emergency services have not been able to locate an ELT signal from the missing Cessna, suggesting that none was transmitted.
According to Dummer, “two helicopters will start a new search” this afternoon – if the weather permits and the winds die down.
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