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Son plane hated mom

An amateur Swiss pilot crashed his small airplane into his estranged mother’s home in an attempt to kill both of them, authorities said yesterday.

“Are you home, Mom? I’m just about to drop in,” Konrad Schmidt, 47, called from the cockpit before plunging the plane into his mother’s first-floor bedroom on Sunday.

The crash destroyed the home in the village of Oberhallau, but Rosemary Schmidt survived because she was in the basement.

Police said Konrad Schmidt, who died in the crash, was bitter about his parents’ divorce, and his father’s cancer death soon afterward.