A pilot who died when he crashed a small aircraft near Germany's parliament building in central Berlin had been questioned about the disappearance of his wife and was probably on a suicide mission, police said on Saturday, reuters reported. Officials said they had definitively ruled out the possibility that Friday's crash onto a lawn between the Reichstag building and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's office was in any way related to terrorism. "Before taking off, the pilot supposedly spoke of his intention to kill himself," Gerd Neubeck, Berlin's deputy police chief, told a news conference. "Everything points to a suicide." The single-engine, ultra-light aircraft crashed shortly before 8:30 p.m. (1830 GMT) on Friday a couple of hundred metres (yards) from the glass-domed Reichstag and about the same distance from the chancellery. Witnesses said the plane, which burst into flames on impact, appeared to be flying out of control. -- SPA 2323 Local Time 2023 GMT
