Overview

• Victims include a 70-year-old man from Ebersberg, his 33-year-old son and the son's partner from Regensburg, and a 59-year-old pilot from Markt Schwaben.
• The single-engine aircraft departed from Oberschleißheim on July 5 and went down in steep forest terrain near the Krimmler Waterfalls.
• Rescuers extinguished a small forest fire sparked by the post-crash blaze that largely destroyed the airframe.
• The Salzburg public prosecutor has secured the wreckage, ordered autopsies for all four victims and appointed an aviation expert to investigate technical factors.
• This accident follows earlier light-aircraft incidents in the region and has intensified scrutiny of safety protocols for alpine sightseeing flights.