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Trier (dpa / lrs) - After the crash of a small aircraft near the Eifel town of Seffer Weich, in which the pilot died, no indications of a technical cause have been found so far.
This emerges from an interim report that has now been published by the Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU), as the police headquarters in Trier announced on Thursday.
The single-engine aircraft was last certified as airworthy one day before the accident on February 4, 2021.
The small plane crashed in thick fog in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm.
The 26-year-old pilot from Austria was killed in the process.
Investigations by the Wittlich Criminal Inspection were able to rule out a collision with one of the wind turbines in the area of the crash site.
So far, there have been "no indications of criminal behavior in connection with the crash," it said.
However, a final assessment can only be made after submission of pending forensic medical examinations.
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The debris field between the wind turbines extended according to the information for several hundred meters.
The pilot had started in Belgium and wanted to fly to Austria.
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