Germany: Ultra light pilot spends night in tree after crash

The 59-year-old pilot of an ultralight aircraft in Germany spent more than 12 hours stuck up a tree after rescuers were unable to reach him overnight

Berlin: The 59-year-old pilot of an ultralight aircraft in Germany spent more than 12 hours stuck up a tree after rescuers were unable to reach him overnight.

Police in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said the unidentified man crash-landed in the tree late Monday about 30 kilometers east of Stuttgart.

Attempts to bring the man down had to be abandoned because of the risk that the plane and its pilot might be dislodged, police said. He was eventually rescued unharmed yesterday.

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