Crash and fire near Burg
Rescue crews recovered two occupants dead from the aircraft, police said. Berliner Zeitung placed the crash between the Burg-Zentrum and Lostau interchanges.
Initial police information reported by MDR put the crash shortly before 3 p.m. The aircraft caught fire on impact, and firefighters extinguished the burning wreckage.
Photos showed crews putting out flames among the aircraft's remains about one kilometer before the Krähenberge highway rest area. Much of the plane was destroyed, according to the dpa report. Police and rescue crews remained at the scene.
Hannover-bound lanes closed
Authorities closed the A2 toward Hannover after the crash, MDR reported. The duration of the closure was not yet known, according to Berliner Zeitung.
The highway connects the Berlin metropolitan area with North Rhine-Westphalia and is one of Germany's most important east-west routes, Berliner Zeitung noted.
Tracking records show earlier flight path
Berliner Zeitung, citing Flightradar tracking data, reported that the plane departed Schleswig in Schleswig-Holstein at 11:33 a.m., heading southwest. It passed Hamburg at about 12:22 p.m.
The final tracking record, at 1:47 p.m., placed the aircraft between Burg-Zentrum and Lostau at an altitude of 200 feet (about 61 meters), traveling at 57 knots (about 105 km/h). The recordings ended after that point.
A police spokesman said investigators had yet to establish how and why the plane ended up on the A2.
