Tancos: Because he died Sergeant Gonçalves in BA11 ? No answers.
Two and a half months, continues to explain the death of a skydiver in a military exercise in the Air Base 11, in Beja.
The Parachute Inspection Commission of the Parachute Regiment (CIPRP), consisting of one officer and two sergeants, all military SOGA (Operating jumpers High Altitude), the investigating the death of First Sergeant Manuel Gonçalves, occurred in the past day 27 September Air Base (BA) 11, He asked for a second autopsy on the body of the military.
According to found the LN from a former paratrooper officer who closely follows the course of the procedure, concerned is the fact that CIPRP "did not realize, or want to see, why the Gonçalves did not open the reserve parachute, or why the parachute did not open said ", justified.
Three days after the death of military, known as "Speedy Gonzalez", the same source said that "was not human error, material was. The military did all procedures after the assault ", taking the time added that it was important to realize that the accident "was by poor folding the parachute or other cause, which led to the second (reservation) has not developed. They left the strings, but the bag did not let him open ", justified.
It is for these "strange" reasons that two and a half months after the accident that killed the first sergeant Manuel Gonçalves, of 34 year old, It has not yet completed the investigation into the causes of his death.
A Major Elisabete Silva, Public Relations of the General Staff of the Army, when confronted by LN confirmed that the investigation "is still ongoing", not revealing the causes of the situation, He added that if detected procedures that may have to be the cause of the accident "will be implemented measures to correct the situation", concluded.
Recall that the accident that killed the paratrooper occurred during the international exercise Real Thaw 2019 (RT19), elapsing Air Base (BA) 11, in Beja, becoming the first deadly crash of a military in a national or international exercise in Portugal.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
