Overview
- The small aircraft went down nose-first in a field near the Litzlhof agricultural school on Sunday midday, only a few hundred meters from the pilot’s home.
- The pilot’s daughter witnessed the crash and called for help, and his wife, an emergency physician, attempted resuscitation before he was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Wreckage was scattered across the area, which was cordoned off as a bomb-disposal team from Graz secured and later detonated the unused Sprengkapsel in a nearby gravel pit.
- State criminal police and Austria’s aviation accident commission completed on-site evidence collection after the site was made safe, and the cause remains undetermined with the investigation ongoing.
- Local reporting identifies the victim as a well-known general practitioner from Kolbnitz, and a witness described the aircraft in a pronounced bank and flying low before impact.