Emergency landing

Glider captain “parked” plane in wheat field

"But this isn't an airfield" - a glider pilot had to make an emergency landing near Lake Attersee because he ran out of thermals and thus the supporting air layers. It was called a "planned outlanding", but the landing was actually planned somewhere else. In the end, nothing happened, only damage to a wheat field.

A 65-year-old pilot from Steyr took off in a glider from a private airfield at around 11.30 a.m. on Monday for a cross-country flight in the Salzkammergut. In the glider was a 68-year-old passenger, also in possession of a pilot's license. After a flight time of around one and a half hours, the pilot had to end his flight due to insufficient thermals and realized that a return flight to the airfield was no longer possible.

Car "towed" the plane
The pilot therefore decided to make a planned off-field landing in a meadow or field. The pilot finally landed the glider safely in the Nußdorf am Attersee area. During the planned off-field landing, the glider grazed the wheat ears in the field with one wing and finally turned 110 degrees, where it came to rest - apparently undamaged. Both occupants were uninjured during the landing. The landowner was informed and the glider was collected by car.