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Two killed as small plane crashes in eastern Austria 

The two men were trapped in the badly damaged cockpit.

Published: 04th July 2018 03:52 PM  |   Last Updated: 04th July 2018 03:52 PM   |  A+A A-

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By PTI

BERLIN: A small plane has crashed at an airfield in eastern Austria, killing two people aboard, an emergency official said.

Lower Austria province fire service spokesman Franz Resperger told the Austria Press Agency that the aircraft came down nose-first today morning in a field next to the runway at the Voeslau-Kottingbrunn airfield, south of Vienna.

The two men were trapped in the badly damaged cockpit. There was no immediate word on the cause of the crash.

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