Two people, one 69 year old man and 67 year old womandied this Friday after crashed a small plane in a mountainous area of the Leonese municipality of Cimanes de Tejar. The two victims are a couple from Ponferrada, reports Ep.
Sources consulted by Europa Press confirmed that the couple were traveling in a leisure plane which they had rented from the Real Aeroclub de León, based in La Virgen del Camino.
For the moment, the causes of the accident are unknown. It only turned out that the Air Force’s air search and rescue (SAR) service had lost contact with the small plane. about fifteen kilometers from León at 2:38 p.m. this Friday.
From León airfield
The Air Force Air Search and Rescue Service (SAR) informed operations room 122 this Friday around 2:38 p.m. that contact with a small plane had been lost. with two people on boardabout fifteen kilometers from the Leonese capital and indicated that it was a local flight with takeoff and landing at León aerodrome.
The 112 Emergency Center immediately informed the Civil Guard (COS), the León Fire Department, the Military Emergency Unit (UME), the local police of Valverde de la Virgen, the environment of León and Cruz Roja and Sacyl, in a preventive manner, and the Emergency Coordination Center of the Junta de Castilla y León, which coordinated the search for the plane.
The Emergency Coordination Center sent the last known coordinates of the plane the rescue helicopter of the Council, which coordinated operational research efforts in the region. Likewise, the Civil Guard sent a helicopter and the SAR one of its helicopters and activated an air coordination plane, reports Ep.
During the searches carried out in the area, the Civil Guard located the crashed plane in a mountainous area of the municipal area of Cimanes de Tejar (León).
On site, emergency services confirmed andthe death of its occupantsthe details of which are currently unknown and the Civil Guard has taken charge of the corresponding procedures.
