Crash in Baden-Wuerttemberg Oct 2021

[Tartiflette Fan]

https://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/baden-wuerttemberg-mindestens-drei-tote-bei-hubschrauberabsturz_id_24340454.html

Initial report: crash near Buchen, three deaths. R44 . No further details.

[Newforest2]

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/269022

D-HALR, R.I.P.

[Tartiflette Fan]

According to focus magazine, the Braunschweiger Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung is investigating the possibility of sabotage in the downing of the Robinson. Wolfgang Haupt, 34, the owner , had received numerous death threats in the weeks before the crash. He was the owner of an IT company specialising in Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition.. Wreckage was strewn over a 200m radius and the BBF is investigating whether there could have been a deliberate explosion before the crash: walkers in the area report hearing a loud "bang".

https://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/it-unternehmer-wolfgang-haupt-erhielt-morddrohungen-schon-wochen-vor-dem-hubschrauber-absturz_id_24373577.html

[skadi]

Already denied by public prosecutor. The accident investigation authority sees no indications for such scenario.

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/nach-helikopterabsturz-ermittler-vermuten-technische-ursache,SnDD6gn

skadi

[Dog on Cat3]

Doubtless the investigating authorities are considering every possibility. But, given the reports that wreckage was strewn across a large area - suggesting a mid-flight break-up - it would be smart to at least consider and investigate the possibility of sabotage, should it be established threats had previously been made. Seems a bit too early, for me, for anyone to push for any ruling-in, or ruling-out. Time will tell, maybe. In such early days it is worth everyone keeping an open mind, I suggest. Fly safe my German friends