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Looking for answers after the tragic episode of yesterday, from the air show at Feteşti Air Base. A MIG-21 Lancer crashed a few miles from thousands of people in the public, and the pilot did not survive.
There would have been many more victims, say witnesses, if the pilot catapulted, because the plane would have arrived in the stands.
A technical investigation commission was appointed to clarify what led to the air disaster. In addition, the military prosecutor's office was also informed and, according to the procedures, until the end of the investigation, the flight instruction with this type of aircraft was suspended .
The moment the MIG 21 Lancer aircraft hits the ground and creates a curtain of fire. The smoke was surprised by the rooms. The people who attended the aviation show believed that the pilot had managed to catapult before the impact.
The military aircraft performs a demonstration flight at an outdoor event organized by the Open House at the Borcea Military Base. The weather was good, the visibility high, and the pilot, experienced.
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Romeo Manciu eyewitness: "A few seconds ago I saw the plane lose height, pulled a little to the left, the audience being to the right – as if it had moved away from the public – after which it hit the ground and saw a big fireball, the blast. "
"With the left side touching the ground and when the ground exploded," says another witness.
The explosion of impact was so intense that the fuel burned the field on a surface of a few thousand square feet
Immediately after the accident, firefighters, soldiers and the doctors ran to the place of impact. A few minutes later, they found that the pilot had not been able to crash and that he had been killed in the blast.
The specialists can not say for the moment what happened. That it was a fault of the aircraft at the threshold of cassation or the error of a pilot, who was flying too low.
Mihai Fifor, Minister of National Defense: But it's a dramatic thing that happened here, I lost a colleague, the family lost a father , a husband, there are aircraft, 21 Lancer MIGs we operate at the level of the Romanian Air Force, an improved, improved, improved aircraft. "
The pilot took off with the other MIG 21 Lancer and performed a demonstration flight over the public.The aircraft has behaved normally and, to this day , the Department of Defense did not announce that the pilot had declared on the ground that he was in trouble.
Lieutenant Commander Florin Rotaru was 36 years old and was chief pilot
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