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Greek air force confirms identity of dead pilot as Captain Giorgos Baltadoros

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The Greek fighter jet pilot who was killed on Thursday when his plane crashed into the central Aegean, was identified by the Hellenic Air Force as Captain Giorgos Baltadoros.

The 34-year-old was flying a single-seated Mirage 2000-5 and preparing to land at the military airport in Skyros when his jet crashed into the sea, some nine miles northeast off the coast of the island, it said in a press release. No information was provided as to the possible cause of the crash.

Baltadoros was serving at the 331 Air Force Squadron in Tanagra.

Greek defense sources said earlier that the Mirage had been one of Greek two jets on a mission to intercept Turkish jets in the Aegean earlier in the day. The same sources said they did not believe any hostile activity was involved.

Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos tweeted a tribute to a “hero…who fell in the fight to defend our national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

Turkish bachelorette party jet crashes in Iranian mountains, killing 11

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The daughter of a prominent Turkish businessman and a group of her friends were among those killed when the plane went down in western Iran. The private jet was bringing them home from a bachelorette party in Dubai.

Emergency services confirmed Sunday that all 11 people on board were killed when the jet crashed into a mountainside in Iran’s remote Zagros range during bad weather.

The eight passengers and three crew members were all women. Media reports said the victims included Turkish socialite and bride-to-be Mina Basaran and seven of her friends, who were returning from celebrating her bachelorette party in Dubai. The 28-year-old was due to get married next month.The plane was on its way from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul when it disappeared from the radar about 70 minutes after entering Iranian airspace.

A recovery effort was underway at the crash site, but officials said heavy snow and rugged terrain was hampering their progress.

The head of Iran’s Red Crescent, Morteza Salimi, told state television that two helicopters would fly to the area on Monday morning “to search for the plane’s debris and bodies,” adding that there were no survivors.

The Bombardier CL604 private plane was reportedly owned by the private holding company of Turkish businessman Huseyin Basaran, Mina’s father. The firm owns hotels and is also active in the energy, construction and tourism sectors. One of its projects is a luxury apartment complex in Istanbul called “Mina Towers.”

nm/jm (Reuters, AFP, dpa)

Russian transport plane crashes in Syria, killing 32

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Photo: Vitaliy Nevar/TASS

All people on board of the aircraft, including 26 passengers and six crew members died in the incident, Sputnik quotes the Russian Defense Ministry as saying.

The Russian An-26 plane crashed near Syrian Hmeymim base at 3 pm on Tuesday when landing, according to the ministry of defense. The plane hit the ground 500 meters short of the runway.

The technical malfunction was behind the crash, the ministry added, saying the aircraft was not attacked.

The investigation into the incident is underway.

Russian Su-24 warplane crashes at air base in Syria, crew dies: agencies

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A Russian Su-24 frontline bomber rolled off the runway on takeoff from Russia’s Hmeymim air base in Syria on Tuesday, Russian news agencies cited Russia’s defense ministry as saying, adding that the warplane’s crew died in the accident.

The crew, bound for a combat mission, failed to eject themselves from the aircraft. Warplanes of this type carry a crew of two pilots, Reuters reports.

According to reports from the scene, a technical fault was believed to be behind the accident, the defense ministry was cited as saying.

 

Source Panorama.am

Russia’s Defense Ministry plane crashes over Black Sea

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A Russian defence ministry Tu-154 aircraft has disappeared from radar with 91 people on board after taking off from the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Reuters reports citing Russian news agencies’ reports on Sunday.

Russia’s RIA news agency, citing an unidentified security source, said preliminary data indicated the plane had crashed because of a technical malfunction. It was not immediately possible to verify that report.

Those on board included Russian servicemen and artists from a musical ensemble who were on their way to celebrate the upcoming New Year with the Russian air force at the Hmeimin air base in Syria, RIA also quoted the Defence Ministry as saying.

Nine Russian journalists were also on board, it said.

According to the latest reports the TU-154 plane has crashed.

A rescue team had found the crash site in the Black Sea near the coast of the Sochi.