Date:	Tuesday 10 April 2012
Time:	14:00 LT
Type:	Glaser-Dirks DG-800B
Owner/operator:	Private
Registration:	HB-2331
MSN:	8-173B97
Year of manufacture:	1999
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Bockmattlipass -   Switzerland
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	LSZN
Destination airport:	LSZN
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
A Glaser-Dirks DG-800B/18m motorglider (HB-2331/RS) is missing since April the 10th. The motorglider started in Hausen am Albis - LSZN, for a cross-country flight. During the flight there was a south-föhn.

Police, Swiss Air Force, REGA and BAZL are searching in the area's of Zürcher Oberland, Ricken SG, March SZ and Ybrig.

Update: The glider was found 18 days later on April the 28th 2012 at the Bockmattlipass ("Chälen"), Innerthal, Schwyz. The pilot (aged 63) was killed.

http://www.kapo.zh.ch/internet/sicherheitsdirektion/kapo/de/aktuell/medienmitteilungen/2012_04/1204111m.html
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.flightforum.ch/forum/showthread.php?p=800407]
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://news.search.ch/inland/2012-04-11/hobby-pilot-samt-flugzeug-vermisst]
http://www.zol.ch/blaulicht/standard/Vom-vermissten-Motorsegler-fehlt-weiterhin-jede-Spur/story/25608774
https://www.aerogate.net/forum/deutsche-osterreicher-schweizer-luftfahrt-9/motorsegler-dg-800-gebiet-mythen-hochybrig-vermisst-4304/
http://www.videoportal.sf.tv/video?id=05a0c8bb-65e7-48ed-a937-c3dea592ade8
https://www.suedostschweiz.ch/boulevard/vermisster-motorsegler-auf-innerthaler-gebiet-gefunden
https://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/zentralschweiz/vermisster-motorsegler-im-schnee-entdeckt-pilot-63-tot-aus-wrack-geborgen-id1863447.html
http://www.bfu.admin.ch/common/pdf/HB-2331.pdf

https://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/uploads/RTEmagicC_c12ec63a4b.jpg (photo)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Apr-2012 10:45	Alpine Flight	Added
12-Apr-2012 11:17	Alpine Flight	Updated [Aircraft type]
12-Apr-2012 16:39	RobertMB	Updated [Source, Narrative]
12-Apr-2012 16:40	RobertMB	Updated [Source]
30-Apr-2012 23:44	Alpine Flight	Updated [Location, Damage, Narrative]
01-May-2012 01:13	RobertMB	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative]
26-Jun-2013 11:10	Alpine Flight	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Narrative]