Two Injured in Training Aircraft Crash North of Athens

A conception of the helping reportedly detached during the aircraft’s takeoff sequence, causing it to autumn to the ground. Credit: AMNA

A two-seater grooming craft crashed astatine Tatoi Air Base (Dekeleia Air Base), northbound of Athens, this greeting (October 8).

The origin of the superior incidental remains unknown. The 2 instructors connected committee were injured and person been transported to the 251 Hellenic Air Force General Hospital. Reports bespeak that 1 of the occupants is presently successful superior condition.

The mishap occurred erstwhile a conception of the helping reportedly detached during the aircraft’s takeoff sequence, causing it to autumn to the ground. It happened during a scheduled attraction flight, with a unit of 2 pilots and nary trainee.

The Hellenic Air Force has taken implicit the probe into the nonstop circumstances of the crash.

The craft progressive successful the mishap is simply a Tecnam P2002-JF grooming plane. These craft are Italian-made, two-seater, single-engine propeller planes. They are low-wing craft with a fixed landing cogwheel system.

They are specifically utilized by the Hellenic Air Force for the archetypal enactment and grooming signifier of caller Air Cadets and beryllium to the 360 Air Training Squadron based astatine Dekeleia Air Base.

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