Mid-air accident – Two small planes crashed in Reichraming

Two small planes apparently collided over a piece of forest in Reichraming and crashed. All four occupants survived. There were ambiguities because of different reports about parachutes.

Shortly after 7 a.m. on Sunday in Reichraming, the two light aircraft collided in the air. Two men were in each plane. All four escaped unharmed and terrified. The reported district fire department commander Wolfgang Mayr. How the collision happened is still unclear. The two planes are said to have started in Altötting in Bavaria. According to initial reports, a father and his son were in one. One of the light aircraft got stuck in a treetop, another crashed about 500 meters away. “The fact that both planes were equipped with an emergency parachute prevented worse from happening,” said Mayr. On this screen, the devices sailed to the ground. 50 emergency services from the surrounding fire brigades made their way to the scene of the accident. Hard-to-reach crash site “The emergency parachute caused many false reports in the first phase,” said Commander Michael Brunthaler of the Reichraming volunteer fire brigade, describing the confusing situation. Some eyewitnesses said a parachutist collided with an airplane. Others reported to the helpers that the pilots had saved themselves from the falling wreckage by jumping with their parachute. The crash site at the foot of the so-called Farnberg was very inaccessible to the emergency services. The cleanup continued until late Sunday afternoon. Two occupants of the plane were taken to the hospital for observation only. You’ve already been released.
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