Piper Turbo Saratoga down near Arnsberg

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Annex14:
"The answer as you will expect is logically NO !"



"As for the first half sentence where comes that information from" (that the tanks weren´t full)

You can take it from me.

bose-x:
"Charter of a single engine piston aircraft?"

Why not?

"Since when has it been possible to charter an SEP for air taxi work?"

To get this straight: The flight was most certainly of no commercial nature (that is no air taxi) because the pilot (allegedly, not confirmed yet) only held a PPL.

[S-Works]

From your comment earlier:

Agree, but would you take off in a chartered aircraft without having visually checked the fuel level in the tanks before?

Are you now saying this was not a charter?

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bose-x,
I am sorry, my language proficiency is obvisiosly in need of some overhaul.
Make it a rented instead of a chartered aircraft.

[S-Works]

Thanks for the clarification. All to easy for people and the idiots in the press to jump to conclusions.

[EDMJ]

To get this straight: The flight was most certainly of no commercial nature (that is no air taxi) because the pilot (allegedly, not confirmed yet) only held a PPL.

Nonetheless, you wrote earlier that "the family booked the aircraft" - and apparently none of them were flying the aircraft