Tragedy about Vorarlberg: Small plane crashes - pilot dead!

Tragedy about Vorarlberg: Small plane crashes - pilot dead!

Brand, Österreich - A tragic incident shook the aviation on Monday morning when a small plane crashed in Vorarlberg. The machine, a Beechcraft 58 Baron, was on its way from northern Italy to Lower Bavaria, since the 59-year-old pilot wanted to carry out maintenance work in Straubing. Before departure, the pilot asked a workshop manager about the weather conditions. According to swr the pilot was known, but shortly after the start there was a dramatic incident.

The plane crashed near the Motta head near Bludenz, with the first investigations that the machine may have already broke apart in the air. Wreck parts were found on an area of six square kilometers and were sometimes heavily charred, which made the salvage considerably more difficult. The emergency call was triggered by the police for many hours after the crash, but only the pilot's death could be confirmed. The rescue workers, consisting of several hundred emergency services of the police and mountain rescue, worked under difficult conditions because poet fog was prevented from flying helicopter and drones.

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The wreckage of the crashed aircraft is now examined by the Austrian flight accident commission in Vienna to clarify the exact circumstances of the accident. According to a spokesman, the results of these examinations could be long in coming. A autopsy of the found should be easy to clarify whether it is the pilot. It was reported that this Italian was and flew alone, which reinforced the tragedy of the accident.

In another incident, an aircraft crashed in the late afternoon at Hangelar airfield. The machine caught fire immediately. The fire brigade was able to quickly extinguish the flames, but all help came too late for the 51-year-old pilot. This underlines the dangers and uncertainties that are always inherent in aviation, despite the progress in technical security. Here, too, it remains unclear what exactly led to this misfortune, but the operations of the rescue workers were made more difficult based on the flames that have already been sparked, as wien.at