Leipzig / Frankfurt – She mourned, kept silent and repeatedly doubted. In order to finally find peace, she finally wants to know the whole truth about her father’s death.
Dr. Sabine Ebert (51, investment banker and lawyer) is the daughter of the pilot Kurt Ebert († 73), who entered a difficult five years ago with the Unister founders Thomas Wagner (38) and Oliver Schilling (39) on board via Slovenia Thunderstorm came and crashed.
“The police brought me the news of my death. It took a while before I began to understand, it was petrified, “recalls Ebert.” I asked the officials to let my younger sister, who had just gone away, be allowed to inform herself. What I could not prevent was that my seriously ill mother, who lived in a care facility, had been visited. The nurse later told me that she had played ‘Amazing Grace’ for her. She did that beautifully. Meanwhile, my mother is no longer alive either. “
Kurt Ebert was at the wheel of the crash machine
She says of her father: “He was a level-headed man who remained calm even in stressful situations. I had seen that a number of times. Flying was his great passion. He was a pilot for over 40 years. I had met him before the accident and he had told me that he was supposed to fly a few business people to Venice. “
After the period of shock, the lawyer began to really want to understand the tragedy, flew to the crash site, met investigators.
Looking at the fate of her father, the Frankfurt lawyer traces the incredible business crime story. Wagner had traveled to Venice on business: he wanted to save his battered empire and was caught by a fraudster.
The alleged diamond dealer “Levy Vass” had promised Wagner a loan of 15 million euros and in return demanded 1.5 million euros in cash for a default insurance. Instead of the first down payment of the millions of promised credit, Wagner received a suitcase full of counterfeit money.
On the return flight, the Leipzig entrepreneur’s private plane crashed. Levy Vass, the millionaire fraudster, remains missing. His alleged middlemen are silent in court.
–At the crash site, the daughters brought candles and photos
The death pilot’s daughter also encounters that wall of silence during her further investigations: Siegmund K., the owner of the machine that was approved by a company in the USA, appears strange to her.
Ebert: “I don’t know if he knew anything about the background of the dubious flight. His lawyer later said that he believed that the people of Leipzig wanted to see Bastian Schweinsteiger’s wedding. He is a pilot himself, but apparently did not want to or could not carry out the flight. ”
He hired his friend Kurt Ebert to pilot the Piper. After his funeral he went into hiding, stopped answering the phone, and did not answer emails.
Since the machine was ash and apparently a flight recorder could not be found, she wondered how the accident could be fully resolved. The final aircraft accident report was only published after four years.
–The remains of the wrecked machine
When Ebert asked the owner of the machine for more information about insurance, he reacted dismissively. “He wasn’t ready to give me any information about the policies. After a plane crash, it is common for damage compensation payments to be made, ”says Sabine Ebert.
The pilot subsidiary has already sued the Siegburg District Court for information about the existing insurance cover – without success. The Bonn Regional Court rejected the appeal because there was no prospect of success. Another legal process is ongoing.
–The original invoice for the Unister founder’s charter flight
The daughter emphasizes that it is not about the money. “My concern is that my father was the victim of a dubious assignment that, after the tragic crash, must finally become transparent in every respect. So that all the bereaved can find their peace. “
The owner of the charter plane did not want to comment on the case, even after multiple inquiries from BILD.
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