Date:	Thursday 17 May 2012
Time:	18:30 LT
Type:	ETA Aircraft NIMETA
Owner/operator:	Private
Registration:	D-KGYY
MSN:	1
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Between Wallerstein and Wengenhausen, Donau-Ries -   Germany
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Test
Departure airport:	EDPA
Destination airport:	EDPA
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
During high speed stress test maneuvers with a Nimeta prototype a part of the left wing separated at 2000 m and the powered glider crashed near Bundesstraße 25, between Wallerstein and Wengenhausen, Donau-Ries.

The pilot (49) bailed out.

The Nimeta is a single seat motorglider project. Developed and realized by Bruno Gantenbrink and contructed at the Glasfaser Flugzeug Service works. It has a very long 30.84 m (101.18 feet) span wings from an Eta and the fuselage of a Nimbus 4.

https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/noerdlingen/Segelflieger-stuerzt-neben-B25-ab-Pilot-rettet-sich-mit-Fallschirm-id20173556.html
http://www.schwaebische-post.de/615122/
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.donau-ries-aktuell.de/2012/05/18/absturz-eines-segelflugzeugs-bei-wallerstein/]

http://static.rcgroups.net/forums/attachments/4/8/9/0/4/a3569290-107-NimetaEFPFS0382.JPG (photo)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
18-May-2012 00:36	TB	Added
18-May-2012 03:46	RobertMB	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
18-May-2012 11:27	Anon.	Updated [Narrative]
29-Nov-2013 21:41	Alpine Flight	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Narrative]