Manuel Rey Cordeiro, known as “Coco”, of 62 year old, the pilot who died on Sunday, in the crash of the Warbird Yak52s during the air festival Beja Air Show was autopsied yesterday at the Beja Medical-Legal Office (GMLB).
The results of the autopsy that could lead to the cause of the Spanish pilot's death are not yet known., native of Oroso, in the Spanish province of Galicia, who lost his life following the collision of two aircraft from the Portuguese-Spanish Yakstars aerobatic patrol, occurred at 4:05 pm that day, in the air base skies 11 (BA11), in Beja.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN), There is still no date set for handing over the body to the family., in order to carry out funeral services in their homeland.
In these cases there is funeral insurance and it is the insurance company that will hire on a platform the agency that will take care of the transfer of the body of Manuel Reys Cordeiro from Beja to Oroso.
Remember that during the air festival Beja Air Show “Coco” reported an engine failure in his aircraft and when he was trying to climb to gain altitude, crashed its tail into the propeller of another plane from the same patrol.
The Warbird Yak52s crewed by experienced Vueling pilot, ended up crashing and exploding, having previously Manuel Rey Cordeiro jumped from the aircraft, unable to open the parachute, ending up falling on top of the barbed wire fence of the military unit, being completely dismembered.
The other driver involved in the accident was Portuguese Tiago Correia, of 37 year old, resident in Ramada, in the municipality of Odivelas, who managed to land the plane on the connecting takeaway between the Civil Terminal parking apron and the BA11 runways. When you entered a forest area, the left wheel of the landing gear broke, the plane slowed down and was turned “belly up”, with the pilot escaping by his own means and suffering minor injuries.
Civil and military investigation in the field
The Office for the Prevention and Investigation of Aircraft Accidents and Railway Accidents (GPIAAF) They arrived at BA11 on Sunday and their first objective was to inspect the plane where Manuel Rey Cordeiro died., so that his body was removed to the GMLB. In conjunction with the Air Force, GPIAAF inspectors inspected on Monday, first the plane that crashed inside BA11 and then the remains of the aircraft in which the Spanish pilot lost his life.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
