A Canadair CL-215 amphibious plane crashed Tuesday on Evia, a big Greek island positioned instantly to the north of Athens. The nation’s army has acknowledged the incident, revealing the plane belonged to the 355th Tactical Transport Squadron. All crew members had been reported killed.
The tragedy was broadcast dwell on Greek nationwide tv. Footage from the scene exhibits the seaplane dropping water onto a patch of fireside within the mountains, with its wing hitting the timber because it ascended. The aircraft apparently misplaced one in all its floats within the collision, veering off track and crashing into the bottom. Footage exhibits that the plane was destroyed on affect and exploded.
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The army stated it dispatched two helicopters in a search and rescue effort to find the crew of the crashed plane. The pilots had been killed on the spot, the Greek armed forces stated late within the day.
Greece has been enduring an enormous wave of wildfires, which have raged throughout the nation for a couple of week. A number of areas have already been devastated by the blazes, which have prompted the nation’s biggest-ever evacuation of vacationers from the Island of Rhodes. The nation has successfully discovered itself “at battle with fireplace,” in keeping with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
