Small plane crashes on Germany’s A2 near Magdeburg, killing two
Two people died on Friday after a small plane crashed onto Germany’s A2 highway northeast of Magdeburg, in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Saxony-Anhalt police said the aircraft came down at about 2:48 p.m. local time (1348 GMT) between the town of Burg and the Krahenberge rest area. It caught fire, and emergency crews recovered both occupants dead.
All Hannover-bound lanes on the major east-west route were closed. Magdeburg police said early findings indicated that no road vehicles were involved. Photographs showed firefighters extinguishing a largely destroyed red-and-white aircraft, with its tail on the roadway and burned wreckage on an embankment.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known. Police and emergency crews remained at the scene, and it was unclear how long the closure would last. The A2 links the greater Berlin area with North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, and is a main corridor for traffic crossing the country.
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