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Plane Crashed In Berlin Near Reichstag  
User currently offlineOE-LDA From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (7 years 11 months 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 4595 times:

Austrian TV reports that a GA plane has crashed today at 20:45 loc near the Reichstag (Parliament) in Berlin, Germany. Pilot was killed, looks like suicide.

I will try to get more information.

OE-LDA

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User currently offlineJamie757 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (7 years 11 months 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 4554 times:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4709219.stm

Rgds.

User currently offlineSabena332 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (7 years 11 months 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 4541 times:

I heard the same in the radio news about an hour ago. They said that the plane (apparently an ultra-light plane) crashed between Bundeskanzleramt and Reichstag.

Patrick

Edit: Typo

[Edited 2005-07-22 22:07:07]

User currently offlineCaptjetblast From Argentina, joined Aug 2001, 280 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (7 years 11 months 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 4516 times:

As far as I could understand from Der Spiegel, it was an Ultralight, "Ultraleichtsegler".

Sad to know the pilot died.

User currently offlineOE-LDA From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (7 years 11 months 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 4512 times:

Some details: the plane crashed about 150 meter from the Reichstag, pilot was killed. According to local police, identity and motives of the pilot are unknown.
German air traffic control suggests suicide as the motive. The UL crashed in the middle of the meadow and burnt completely. The plane departed in Straußheim and had no contact to German ATC. Pilot handed his car keys and papers over to his son before departing.

Regards, OE-LDA

User currently offlineMir From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 19813 posts, RR: 56
Reply 5, posted (7 years 11 months 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 4410 times:

Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 2):
They said that the plane (apparently an ultra-light plane) crashed between Bundeskanzleramt and Reichstag.

There's not a lot of room between them if my knowledge of Berlin geography holds. Must have been pretty close.

-Mir


7 billion, one nation, imagination...it's a beautiful day
User currently offlineRichardw From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 3712 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (7 years 11 months 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 4383 times:

There may be room, but what I remember these are public open spaces, so members of the public may have been in danger.

User currently offlineColumba From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 6838 posts, RR: 5
Reply 7, posted (7 years 11 months 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 4014 times:

Seems that it was suicide : The pilot´s wife have been missing for a few days and investigations have turned him into the major suspect.


It will forever be a McDonnell Douglas MD 80 , Boeing MD 80 sounds so wrong
User currently offlineCol220 From Germany, joined Jul 2005, 9 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (7 years 11 months 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 3972 times:

Here you can see a videoclip:

http://www.tagesschau.de/video/0,131...Sms256_PLYinternal_NAV_BAB,00.html

(Its German TV)

User currently onlineMD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13369 posts, RR: 64
Reply 9, posted (7 years 11 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 3872 times:

AFAIK, the minimum altitude over Berlin is 2000 ft AGL anyway.

Jan

User currently offline9V-SPF From Germany, joined Sep 2001, 1375 posts, RR: 3
Reply 10, posted (7 years 11 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 3784 times:

Apparently the pilot took his 14 year old son with him on a flight just before his deadly crash in Berlin. The son left the plane at Straussberg while the father continued to Berlin. It is still just a rumour that his wife had become victim of a crime before. Sad story  Sad

This is what is left of the plane:


User currently offlineColumba From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 6838 posts, RR: 5
Reply 11, posted (7 years 11 months 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 3558 times:

Sorry for the kid, apparently lost both mother and father.


It will forever be a McDonnell Douglas MD 80 , Boeing MD 80 sounds so wrong
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