Fatal flight to Oshkosh
Today, 11:25 AM MEST Hans Georg Schmid died a few miles after taking of from Basel/CH direct to Oshkosh. He planed to cross the Atlantic with his shortly finished experimental plane. He buildt this plane himself for the special pupose of some future extrem long range records.
His plane was filled with 450 USgal fuel and had a special allowance for this overload. He crashed into the roof of a 3-story house and died at once. Six other peoples suffered light injuries.
Hans Georg Schmid, 59, was a retired Airline Pilot from the Swiss-Air, he logged 16′ooo flight hours and hold ’several’ flight records. Excatly he won 162 worldrecords! Most related for speed and extrem long range.
For more information, a lot of pictures and technical datas about the man, his vita, attitude and his intensions for the future, as his plane, including the building history: click here .