Research is expected to continue tomorrow and will focus on an offshore section at least 800 meters deep, SKAI said.

Tripoli: chiefs of GEETHA and GEA in the house of the deceased lieutenant colonel.

On Monday afternoon, the 29-year-old co-pilot, Lieutenant Marios-Michael Turucikas, was found dead.

Today, the head of GEETHA, General Konstantinos Floros, and the head of GEA, Vice Admiral Themistocles Burolias visited the family of Marios Turoutsikas in Tripoli to express their condolences.

“That was the finishing blow”

In an interview with the MEGA TV channel, the lieutenant’s father said that “this was the last blow” for his family.

“He was a very timid, very methodical child, and we will not take this blow. And most importantly, he did not kill himself, someone else was driving. I don’t mean to say that it was the pilot’s fault. As a father, how do I see it? My child was co-pilot that day. And they kill him. He had nothing to do, he didn’t help himself because he was a focused pilot, he didn’t do extreme things, I knew that from his other colleagues as well. If he had traveled alone, perhaps he would have been alive.”

OUR the particular flight was not a regular one emphasized pilot and aviation accident expert Mr. Pantelis Frangulison the state channel, explaining that “low flights follow the terrain.”

In Katakolo, where the wreckage of the fighter was thrown yesterday, a small underwater robot was transported, which searches at a depth of up to 100 meters in the bottom of the area.

Also operating in the area are two divers from the 206th Air Infrastructure Wing’s Mobile Submarine and Offshore Maintenance Unit (MOSIF) and three divers from the 31st Search and Rescue Squadron.

Divers work on a Coast Guard lifeboat assisted by an underwater robot.

In addition, in addition to the C-70 Navy helicopter and Super Puma, which also operate in the evening hours, an Agusta Bell helicopter joined the search from early in the morning.

Chronicle of the Fall of the Ghost

Two F-4 Phantoms took off on Monday at 10:15. The pilots of the fatal Phantom worked out a training scenario, performing a “small cruising” flight at an altitude of 100 meters, paired with a second aircraft of the same type.

An F-4 Phantom II crashed in Kyparissia Bay under unclear circumstances, only 8 nautical miles from the coast and 25 from Andravida Air Base.

“When you fly low at high speeds and maneuver, with turns and with large g-forces, at any moment there is a possibility of an accident or there may be other factors,” the head of aviation told the state channel. and defense analyst Konstantinos Yatridis.

The type of aircraft in question first arrived in the country on order 1972, and the second admission took place in 1977.. The date of receipt of the aircraft is not specified, according to ERT.