Three days after the disappearance of a small aircraft, 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 Schrankarkogel is a mountain in the Stubai Alps and is located near Längenfeld, northeast of Sölden. The plane’s pilot was found dead on board. There were no further victims.
Cessna crashed near Sölden: cause of accident not yet clarified
According to the Austrian police, Alpine police forces are currently on their way to the crash site to begin their investigation. They want to clarify why the plane crashed in the Alps. The cause of the accident is still unclear, and it is also unclear whether only the pilot was actually on board the plane BR not finally clarified.
The Cessna 172 was, according to “Tiroler Tageszeitung“started on Saturday in Rome 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.
Wreckage of missing Cessna discovered in Tyrol
Tourers and a hut owner reported Austrian media according to a low-flying small aircraft in the Stubai Alps region. According to the police, the search had been severely affected in the past few days by adverse weather conditions such as hurricane force winds.