Image: THOMAS KEIDEL (BSB… LUNGAU DISTRICT)
This emerges from the expert’s report now available, ORF Salzburg reported on Thursday afternoon, citing the public prosecutor’s office.
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According to the report, the four-seat small Cirrus SR-20 aircraft was overloaded by 82 kilograms. In addition, some requirements of the technical manual for this aircraft type were not observed. The flight planning was also said to have been inadequate: the pilot misjudged the weather, according to the public prosecutor. He was flying according to visual flight rules and was therefore dependent on minimum visibility.
In very stormy weather and sometimes thick fog, the machine crashed into a forest in impassable terrain on Passeggen – a mountain ridge in the municipality of St. Andrä im Lungau. The pilot was probably still trying to find a “weather or cloud hole” for crossing the main Alpine ridge, according to the ORF. The Cirrus SR 20 was on its way from Croatia to Schärding am Inn airfield, where it was also stationed. All four occupants – a 50-year-old from the Schärding district, a 48-year-old from Salzburg, a 39-year-old from the Grieskirchen district and a 52-year-old from the Traunstein district – were killed in the crash.
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