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Greek Firefighting aircraft crash.
« on: July 25, 2023, 04:57:30 PM »
Both pilots of a Greek Air Force firefighting aircraft have been killed, after their aircraft crashed during a mission over the island of Evia. RIP
There is a video of the incident,( which I did not post up ), it looks to be a CL-215 involved, the Greek Air Force operate both the CL-215 and CL-415 water bombers.
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Re: Greek Firefighting aircraft crash.
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2023, 01:09:10 AM »
If anyone who has seen the video it looks as if it clipped a tree on the starboard wing as you can see a yellow piece come off (which I think it's the float) and then it banks over.
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Re: Greek Firefighting aircraft crash.
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2023, 11:26:29 AM »
Yes that`s pretty much how it looked, the aircraft came in very low, which they sometimes need to do to hit their target, clipped a tree/bush which sheared a wing float off.
The aircraft continued to roll to the right in a steep bank, and appeared to stall, with no room to recover. A terrible tragedy. :(

It was a Canadair CL-215-1A10 Reg 1055, from 355th Tactical Transport Squadron of the 112th Combat Wing of the Greek Air Force.
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