Dusseldorf / Westerland - The pilot who died in an accident on the approach to Westerland / Sylt, the Baulöwe Willi Waldhausen (63) from Hückelhoven.
Police spokesman Bjoern Goos: "The two passengers have been rescued out of danger." Determinations under the First was no fuel in the fuel line.
"This suggests, according to an expert on the spot," that the pilot did not tanked enough or has adjusted the fuel lever. "Was also striking that the machine had not burned. Witnesses report that she had advised on the approach into a tailspin.
Waldhausen was with his single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza A-36 (, 300 hp, four seats), started from Maastricht. He had his friend, a real estate agent in Düsseldorf (70), while his secretary (31).
The Düsseldorf was able to free himself after the crash itself from the wreckage. The 31-year-old and the pilot was trapped and had to be rescued by firemen.
Although an emergency physician who saw the crash happen immediately hurried, was the 63-year-old no longer be saved. The Düsseldorf passenger came into the Asklepios Clinic North Sea on the island. The woman was flown to Flensburg.
The Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation has secured the machine that crashed near a residential area.
The married Waldhausen Hückelhoven is a well known developer and investor, has several companies and Ratheim a gas station. He built the "Ratheim Center" and tapped into exactly Hückelhoven-Millich a large housing estate.
