ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 192267
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| Date: | Monday 18 August 1975 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Cessna F150H (Reims) |
| Owner/operator: | unknown |
| Registration: | OE-AVY |
| MSN: | F150-0373 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Unknown, Austria -
 Austria
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | LOXZ |
| LOWL | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Little or no information is available |
Written off.
I suspect this is the plane crash my father died in. I will probably will research further, but for now basically the story I have been told (I was a little child then): My father, Ernst Aichinger, an engineer and hobby pilot, together with a colleague of his wanted to visit the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Austria in Zeltweg. There is a military air base of the Austrian bundeseer nearby. My father and his colleague wanted to fly there over the weekend and return to their job in Linz, Austria (a fewhundred km away) before monday. Weather was bad, the Grand Prix was stopped mid Race. My father and his colleague mulled waiting for better weather in Zeltweg but in the end they instantly returned. My father only had a license to fly by sight, and the Cessna was only equipped to fly by sight. He should never have taken off. Due to bad sight and/or bad weather he touched the tip of a tree with the plane and both he and his passenger died in the crash on a field not far from Zeltweg, He was found later (I don't know if 18th is the date he was found or the date of the actual crash).
Sources:
LFZ Register Austria
Personal knowledge of the Pilot's son
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 26-Dec-2016 21:35 | Alpine Flight | Added |
| 25-Jan-2020 15:06 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location] |
| 25-Aug-2023 05:40 | ralph.aichinger | Updated [[Aircraft type, Operator, Location]] |
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