Before the eyes of the viewers: Pilot show crashes in flight - and miraculously survives

Before the eyes of hundreds of visitors in a flight festival in Altötting is brought down on Saturday for a art flyer 800 meters in depth, and the floor pitched. It's hard to believe The Pilot survived.

The Pilot miraculously survived with serious but non-life threatening injuries. In the context of an aerobatic demonstration of the 69-year-old Pilot Markus Schmid lost from Rosenheim control of his single-engine plane and crashed in a Meadow.

air show in Altötting: Pilot, crashes

It was took off against 17 clock, as Schmid with his single-engine aerobatic aircraft in the air to entertain with a variety of art pieces, visitors to the flight strength of Altötting. "He is a very experienced Pilot who for many years has been our guest," Simon honor schwendtner, Chairman of the airline group Alt-Neuötting and organizer of the festival at the airfield Easter meadow in the southwest Altöttings, in front of the upper Bavarian people sheet (OVB).

Before the eyes of the viewers: Pilot crashes in Altötting

He himself had observed, as Schmid had made loop – the-loops and a Turn- the plane is pulled up, before it tilts to the side, and in the fall flight passes.

Shortly after 17 PM, the Pilot lost from yet unknown causes control of his plane and crashed on a Lawn. The aircraft remained after the impact, according to the police on the roof. Quickly Savior of the Bavarian Red cross and the Federal Agency for Technical relief had rushed to the crash site to recover the victims. The Pilot was initially trapped. After they had recovered the badly injured, but addressable 69-Year-old from the wreckage, was Schmid immediately brought for further treatment to the hospital. There was a danger of not living according to police.

crash at air show in Altötting: Pilot survives and is responsive

On the phone, the Pilot said to the Reporter of the OVB: "The doctor is just to Visit there, I'll probably be in surgery today," the Rosenheimer beat audibly displayed. However, Schmid was optimistic: "it'll be okay." A flight accident analytical opinion given by the Prosecutor's office in Traunstein, Germany, in order now to clarify the cause of the crash. The plane wreck was assured. The amount of the property damage is not known.

Mathias Weinzierl

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