The moment when a Spanish army plane crashes into the Mediterranean Sea

A Spanish Air Force pilot died Monday when his plane sank to the water off the coast of the Murcia region (southeast).

According to the Spanish Ministry of Defense, the plane "carried out an instructional flight" and fell in front of the town of La Manga at 9:38 am (local time) in the morning. The defense portfolio added that the aircraft was flown only by an instructor pilot who "managed to eject before the plane crashed into the sea".

"An instructor at the General Air Academy dies when his plane plunges into the sea," they said in a statement.

The President of the Government, the Socialist Pedro Sánchez, presented his condolences. "All my love for the family of Commander Francisco Marín, who died in an accident at La Manga, and for his companions @EjercitoAire," he writes on Twitter.

In images broadcast by a video lover, you can see the device, small, falling in the water not far from the beach. According to the newspaper The world, the "C-101 is a veteran air force training plane." Acquired from the 70s to the company HOUSE, the first four units joined the General Air Academy of San Javier (Murcia) in 1980 ".

To search for the pilot, a large air and sea rescue was quickly activated, including the Air Force, the Navy, the Fire Brigade and the Maritime Rescue, a body attached to the Spanish Government.