Austria
Rescuers find missing plane – pilot was dead in the wreckage
The plane that crashed was a Cessna 172
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In Austria, a helicopter crew discovered a plane that had been missing since Saturday. The pilot of the Cessna 172 died in the crash in the Tyrolean Alps.
Three days after the disappearance of a small plane, the police in Austria discovered the wreckage of the Cessna 172 in the high mountains. “It is the wreckage of the missing plane,” said the head of the Tyrolean aviation authority, Klaus Hohenauer, to the German Press Agency on Tuesday. Shortly before, the remains of the small aircraft had been spotted by a police helicopter on the Schrankar in Tyrol at an altitude of 2,800 meters. The plane’s pilot was found dead on board. There were no further victims.
Cessna 172 crashed over Austria
According to the “Tiroler Tageszeitung”, the Cessna 172 took off from Rome on Saturday with the destination Bad Wörishofen near Augsburg. However, radio contact was lost northeast of Sölden at 11:45 a.m. Shortly before, according to the newspaper, the German pilot had reported in an emergency call that he was losing altitude in his Cessna. According to the police, the search had been severely affected in the past few days by adverse weather conditions such as hurricane force winds.