Disaster in Namibia: Ex-Kaufland manager Silke Lohmiller and her family died in a plane crash.
An aircraft disaster in Namibia claims the lives of four Germans. As of right now, the pilot is accompanied by an enterprising couple from the Heilbronn district and their kid.
The carrier Desert Air claims that a tiny propeller plane crashed in Namibia, killing all four people. “On board the plane were a pilot and three German nationals,” the statement read. Sadly, no one survived. The pilot was also German, according to the Foreign Office.
The victims include the long-time managing director of the Dieter Schwarz Foundation, Silke Lohmiller, as well as her husband Richard and their son. They came from the Heilbronn region. According to the foundation, Lohmiller worked for more than four decades for the Schwarz Group, which includes Lidl and Kaufland.
“The Dieter Schwarz Foundation announces with deep dismay and great sadness that its long-time managing director Silke Lohmiller has died in a tragic plane crash together with her husband Richard and their son Henry,” says an article published by the foundation on its website.
“Silke Lohmiller was a formative leader of the Schwarz Group for more than four decades. Since joining in 1984, she has demonstrated visionary energy in her functions and was responsible, among other things, for the development of Tip Werbeverlag before taking over the area of social commitment within the group of companies in 2009.”
Prior to his resignation as a board member and president of Germany, Richard Lohmiller spent forty years as a manager at Kaufland, according to the local daily Heilbronner Stimme.
On Sunday, the family departed from the capital city of Windhoek’s international airport aboard a Cessna 210. The little aircraft never made it to the private airstrip of a resort in the Sossusvlei region, where it was scheduled to land almost an hour later.
On Monday morning, the wreckage was discovered. It said that an official inquiry into the accident’s cause has been started by Namibian authorities.
One of the most well-known tourist spots in the nation of southwest Africa is Sossusvlei, which is well-known for its red sand dunes, which are among the tallest in the world.
