A helicopter crash was on Wednesday reported in eastern Romania, close to the Black Sea, killing at least five soldiers who were on board the aircraft.
The spokesman of the Ministry of National Defence of Romania, Gen Constantin Spanu, confirming the crash, saying, ‘All five members of the IAR 330 crew lost their lives.’
Gen. Spanu further revealed that a search and rescue operation for the pilot of the MiG 21 LanceR was still ongoing.
It was reported that the IAR 330-Puma helicopter crashed in the area of Gura Dobrogei, 11 kilometres (seven miles) from the airfield on Wednesday.
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The soldiers lost their lives while searching for a fighter jet that lost its radio connection with the control tower and disappeared from the radar.
Spanu mentioned that the pilot had complained before the crash about adverse weather condition and was instructed to return to base.
‘It’s premature to discuss possible causes. Certainly, there are unfavourable weather conditions, but we cannot comment now.
‘We have two commissions of inquiry set up. Our focus is on the search-and-rescue operation,’ he said.
The spokesman added that the major focus was still on the search and rescue mission of the missing fighter jet and its pilot.
Africa Daily News, New York has last Saturday reported that rescuers in Comoros struggled to find survivors from the wreckage of a plane carrying 14 people that which crashed somewhere around the Indian Ocean archipelago.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the airline AB Aviation had earlier raised alarm that its small Cessna plane had disappeared from the radar about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) from its destination during a flight between the capital Moroni and the city of Fomboni on the island of Moheli on Friday last week.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
