Ferreira do Alentejo: Na Morre pilot aircraft remains of plane.
A dead, two serious injuries and five light, It was the result of the fall of an aircraft, one Pilate Porter PC-6, German registration, a few minutes after taking off from the airfield Canhestros, in the municipality of Ferreira do Alentejo.
The fatality was the pilot of the small plane, Belgian nationality, about 30 year old, whose parachute did not open after the light aircraft, it seems, have disintegrated in flight.
A aircraft (bottom photo, registration D-FSBC. See the tribute video to the aircraft) I had shifted from around the 19,00 hours, seven paratroopers on board, a school of skydiving that operates in civilian airfield Canhestros.
The eight occupants and the wreckage of the Pilatus Porter, They were scattered in an area about three kilometers. A witness who was at the scene told Lidador News (LN) "the parachute of the pilot did not open. The individual had a very grane head wound that will have you cause death ". Our interlocutor was the first on the scene explained that "there was wreckage scattered all that was site and the wounded were scattered", concluded.
One of the paratroopers was long gone time and was only located by the occupants of an aircraft that took off at the aerodrome.
For the emergency services of the Beja Hospital were transported two women, a 37 year old, Alhos Vedros and another 48 year old, Lisbon. In another injured editing latch was being transported to the same unit, while the individual who has disappeared and is in serious condition was evacuated in INEM helicopter to the Hospital of Santa Maria, Lisbon and the remaining were assisted from the site and taken to the airfield after having been transported to their homes.
According to Lt. Col. Victor Cabrita, District commander do CDOs, on the ground is "a research team from the GNR and the office for the prevention and investigation of accidents involving aircraft, to look for conclusions about the device fall ", concluded.
On site were 56 operating of Ferreira do Alentejo Fire, Beja, Aljustrel and Cuba, GNR and Civil Protection, supported by 22 by Car, including the VMER of Beja Hospital and a helicopter from the INEM.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
