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Lippe (dpa / lnw) - When a glider pilot crashed, a pilot in Horn-Bad Meinberg (Lippe district) had a fatal accident.

The 74-year-old died at the accident site on Saturday afternoon, the police said.

According to the information, the officials assume an accident, but the exact cause was initially unclear.

The public prosecutor's office had ordered the body to be confiscated and an autopsy, it said.

The Federal Aviation Office will check the technical cause of the crash.

First the "Westfalen-Blatt" reported about it.

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