Beja: unmanned aircraft of the Belgian Air Force crashed in access to BA 11.
A Belgian military drone crashed near the Beja Airbase, Tests performed when, yesterday afternoon.
A aircraft – which will be the size of a light aircraft – It disappeared from radar at about 16 hours and found, just over two kilometers from the runway of the Air Base No. 11 (BA11), after a farmer has given warning.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN), the Air Force (DOES) Belgium is in Portugal since the day 6 October and planned to run tests to day 15 November. Every year, this force takes advantage of the favorable conditions of the Alentejo to perform exercises.
At the crash site, which lies between Mombeja and Santa Vitória, lane on the approach zone, were members of the Portuguese Air Force with a crane, the aircraft having been dismantled to facilitate transport to BA11, with the support of the FA vehicles from Belgium.
The car entered the BA11 fence 01,00 hours (photo on the North access roundabout Beja), nine hours after the aircraft, controlled by mobile phone signal, have disappeared from devices Air Force (DOES) Belgian.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
