What: Fliegmituns.de AutoGyro Europe MTOsport
Where: near Breitscheid Airfield, Germany
When: July 15, 2011 at 15:10
Who: 2 fatalities
Why: On approach to Breitscheid, the Gyrocopter went into a tailspin, fell like a stone, and crashed in a field. The 59 year old pilot and the 26 year old passenger (who had received the flight as a birthday gift from his girlfriend) both died on the scene, 150 meters from the runway.

The pilot had been an Air Force transport pilot, and worked for the Defense Department, and an Airbus captain.

Both the pilot and the passenger are being autopsied in order to exclude heart attack or illness as a cause for the accident.


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