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Air traffic: Missing: Search for small aircraft in Tyrol continues

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Missing: Search for small aircraft in Tyrol continues

The moraine landscape in the Ötztal Alps (symbolic image). photo

© Ute Wessels/dpa

A small plane on the way to Germany has gone missing. The last signal came from the Ötztal. The police fear a crash.

One since Saturday Tyrol’s missing small plane on its way to Germany has not yet been found. The Austrian police assume an accident and have conducted an intensive search in the Ötztal, where the last signal from the machine was received. According to police, the plane came from Italy and was supposed to fly to Germany. According to initial findings, there was only one pilot on board. The police initially did not provide any information about his identity.

The first search on Saturday was called off due to strong winds and rainfall. There was also Saharan dust in the air, a police spokesman said. On Sunday, when the situation cleared up, the police expanded the search area to include the nearby Pitztal and Sellraintal. The search there was also unsuccessful, as a police spokesman in Tyrol said on Monday. The weather has become worse again, precipitation and winds have made the use of helicopters difficult. The operations management assumed that the weather would improve around midday and then wanted to intensify the search again.

The Ötztal is a side valley of the Inn Valley in the Austrian state of Tyrol. The alpine holiday resort of Sölden is located almost 1,400 meters high in the southern part of the valley, around 100 kilometers south of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria.