Footage shows aircraft ablaze on German highway after crash kills two
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- Video filmed from passing vehicles captured the burning wreckage along the roadside embankment
- The crash shut down all Hannover-bound lanes on the critical east-west artery linking Berlin with western Germany
Footage shows the fiery aftermath of a small plane crash along Germany's A2 highway northeast of Magdeburg, where two people died after the aircraft came down on the busy transit route on Friday afternoon.
The video, recorded from passing motorway traffic, captures the aircraft engulfed in flames along the roadway embankment.
Police in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt confirmed that both occupants of the aircraft were killed. Emergency response personnel recovered their bodies after arriving at the scene between the town of Burg and the Krahenberge service area shortly after the crash occurred at approximately 2:48 p.m. local time (13:48 GMT).
Investigators said initial evidence indicates no cars or trucks on the highway were struck during the impact.
The incident forced authorities to completely shut all Hannover-bound lanes on the A2, one of Germany's primary east-west transport corridors connecting the greater Berlin metropolitan area to North Rhine-Westphalia. Firefighting units and crash investigation specialists remained on-site to extinguish the flames and clear debris from the road surface.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation by federal aviation safety authorities.
