Some update translated from OVB-online (registration required) :
Brannenburg - ´The People of Brannenburg were very lucky, they escaped closely an enormous disaster´ said mayor Peter Gold to the ´Oberbayrisches Volksblatt´ newspaper, after an Alphajet from Oberpfaffenhofen crashed.
The pilot probably pushed the plane steep into the ground, to avoid the closest houses of the village only 200 meters away. The pilot and his co were probably killed.
The mayor further reports, the plane was on a test flight close to the alps and hit the ground at a very steep attitude. ´It looks like the pilots gave their lives to avoid crashing into the dense settled quarter called Thannerhut´
The closest houses, including the nursing home ´St. Florian´, are only 200 meters away. The railway line Rosenheim-Kufstein is also very close to the crash site, a small railway crossing is nearby.
The fire and rescue service arriving at the scene found a terrific sight, a deep crater surroundet by smoking debris of the jet. There were no signs of the pilots, parashutes or ejection seats.
The crash happened at 15:39 UTC, at fist it was assumed a Phantom Jet of the german airforce had crashed, eyewitnesses have seen two parashutes, assuming the pilots have ejected safely. But this seems to be wrong later in the evening, when SAR helicopters using infrared cameras were not able to find any bodies around.
Finally it was confirmed, the plane was a private Alphajet owned by Red Bull, which had taken of from Oberpfaffenhofen Airfield (formerly used by Dornier) at 15:15 UTC.
Later the evening it became more evident, that both pilots lost their lives. They are suspected to be still in the wreakage. At 19:30 the Rosenheim Police director Franz Meyer told OVB, ´We have searched the whole area, and found no signs of the pilots. We have to assume they were killed in the Crash. It is suspected they are still in the cockpit about 10 meters deep in the soft ground. There was a pilot and a member of the german aviation authority (LBA) from Barunschweig on board´
Some wittnesses, including a railway worker, reported the plane was heading for the railway station, when it started a climb, performed a kind of loof and turned then steeply downward.
Expersts of the accident investigation departement arrived later the evening, to find out the cause of the accident.
Condolences to all involved
