The condition in which the damaged device was left, completely destroyed, broken and with a good part of the fuselage scattered in the mountains of the province of León where it crashed, it gives a picture of the brutal impact of the plane on Friday after two in the afternoon which cost the life to its two occupants, a couple from Ponferrada.
Civil Guard agents from the Air Accident Investigation Service continue this Saturday on the ground to collect clues on the causes of the fatal accident, which occurred at a mountain in the town of Cimanes del Tejarwhere the remains of the aircraft were widely scattered.
On board were the couple from Ponferrada, aged 67 and 69, whose lifeless bodies were completely destroyed by the brutal impact. YesYour recovery is not easy by the experts sent to the site, even if on Friday even the funeral services were able to recover important remains.
The alert that something might have happened to the plane was issued at 2:38 p.m. Friday. At that time, the Air Force Search and Rescue Service (SAR) informed the 1-2-2 operations room that contact with the aircraft had been lost approximately fifteen miles away. kilometers from the Leonese capital.
The small plane, a local flight with takeoff and landing at the León airfield, was occupied by two people. Apparently, they rented it at the Real Aeroclub de León, based in La Virgen del Camino.
Taking into account the opinion, a wide device He set off to try to locate the plane. The Civil Guard (COS), the León Fire Department, the Military Emergency Unit (UME), the local police of Valverde de la Virgen, the León Environment, the Red Cross and Sacyl were activated as a preventive measure .
From the Emergency Coordination Center of the Government of Castilla y León, responsible for coordinating the search, they marked a point on the map: the last known coordinate of the plane. With several helicopters From the air – the rescue one from the Junta, another from the Civil Guard and another from the SAR – in addition to a coordination plane, in addition to the robot on foot, the Benemérita agents managed to locate the damaged device. It had crashed in a mountainous area in the municipality of Cimanes de Tejar.
And they confirmed the death of the two occupants, a couple from Ponferrada. The causes of the accident continue to be investigated.
