Beja: According parachute Sergeant Gonçalves who died in BA11 did not open.
The 1st Sergeant Gonçalves, the Parachute Regiment, Tancos, He died after the second parachute did not open during the jump. during the Real Thaw 2019, na BA11. There are differences in the time of the accident resulting in the death of military.
Why not opened the second parachute freefall jump equipment 1st Sergeant Gonçalves used yesterday in Real Thaw exercise 2019 (RT19), is the question that the investigators of the Judicial Police Military (PJM) They will find out when you pull the handle that should have triggered the opening of the military system.
The Lidador News (LN) found that after the jump, up to 15.000 feet, next to 5.000 kilometers, or military SOGA (Jumper High Altitude Operational) triggered the opening mechanism of the main parachute, that for reasons yet unknown not opened. For the operator malfunction or failure, the second parachute was not triggered until the clearance height, 3.500 feet, next to 1.000 meters, what shot to death the military parachutist.
Another detail not least has to do with the chronological difference in the occurrence of alert. The statement of the Army states that the military "died following an accident at 09,40 hours", when PROCIV states that "the order of first alert occurred at 10,46 hours". Situation for LN, Public Relations (RP) the Army and Air Force, become "a ball goes" communication accountability.
A Major Elisabete Silva, Army, He maintained that the accident "occurred within the BA11", turn Lt. Col. Manuel Costa, Air Force, He claimed to be "the authorities conducting the investigation", read: Military Judicial Police (PJM), which was called to the scene.
The only confirmed fact is that the Portuguese paratrooper was killed, within the perimeter of the Air Base (BA) 11, in Beja, following an operational free-fall jump. The military had immediate death, given the violence of the crash to the ground.
After warning the Air Force to CODU was triggered one of the INEM ambulance Beja Fire (BVBeja) and the Medical Car Emergency and Resuscitation (VMER) the city hospital Alentejo. The ambulance INEM entered the BA11, but by virtue of the military have been declared dead, the same eventually returned without the body. In turn, the VMER was demobilized when I followed the path of military unit.
The accident happened during the multinational exercise "Real Thaw 2019" (RT19), joining in Beja Airmen, Navy and Portuguese army and forces of Denmark, Spain, France, Holland, United States and Nato, in total 600 participants and 21 Aircraft.
The military's body was removed from the BA11 by ambulance from BVBeja, it is accompanied by a vehicle of PJM, little was after 15,00 hours, He was admitted to the Forensic Medicine Office of Beja, where it will be autopsied on Monday.
Who is who
The 1st Sergeant Manuel António Teixeira Gonçalves, I had 34 year old, It was a military SOGA (Operating jumpers High Altitude) the Parachute Regiment, based Tancos, born in Lordelo (Walls / Harbor) and resided in Junction (Santarém), and is married to a Spanish citizen.
military valiant
The President of the Republic, the government, through the Minister of Defense, the Army and the Parachute Regiment publicly mourned the death of Sergeant 1st SOGA. Your former commander, Colonel Hilario Fishmonger, which integrates the power of the European Mission of Military Training in the Central African Republic wrote: "We are all in mourning and we miss this brother who went on duty, QNPVSC (What Never for Overdue If Know)".
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
