The Koblenz police said yesterday the pilots were slightly injured, but did not need hospital treatment, after the crash which left debris strewn around a main highway which was swiftly closed.
No one else was injured in the crash.
The plane crashed in a hilly region some 50 kilometres west of Koblenz and police, army and firefighting personnel were quickly at the scene.
Local paper Rhein-Zeitung carried pictures of one of the pilots caught in a tree with his parachute and reported that the plane went down in a wooded area at around 9:30 pm local time (0200 IST) after taking off from a nearby air base.
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