Are we sure there was a power loss or is this speculation.
Quoted from news article. Wheter that itself was a
verbatim quote of a pilot's statemnt is unkonwm (to me).
Takoff was at Wiedergeltingen 1998 ft MSL,
Top of grassy "Schönkahler" hill is 5538 ft MSL
allegedly that's where the emergency decent was attempted
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6nkahler