The official statement indicated that the aircraft C-208B, belonging to the Military Aviation, I know “rushed to earth” 3 kilometers from the José Antonio Páez air base, in the jungle state of Amazonas, “while carrying out a flight training mission,” in a dispatch signed by the Minister of Defense, General Vladimir Padrino Lopez.
The event occurred at 06:56 local time and the plane, according to the statement, “was piloted by the captains Jose Castillo Tovar Y Jefferson Classroom, completing the crew the first lieutenant Robert Aponte, along with the lieutenants Santiago Collado Y Jose Rivas” add the document.
Maduro expressed his condolences and ordered an investigation
For his part, the Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro joined “the mourning that overwhelms the military family of Venezuela, due to the irreparable loss of 5 brave Officers of our Bolivarian Military Aviation, who were carrying out a flight mission.”
“I send my condolences to their families, reiterating all my support”said the president.
In addition, according to a government notification, the head of state ordered “to initiate the corresponding investigations, with the ultimate goal of determining the possible causes of the incident” and at the same time “providing all the necessary support to the relatives of the deceased.”
While the governor of the Amazonian indigenous state, Miguel Leonardo Rodriguezpublished on his Twitter account that “All of Amazonas is in mourning. Sadness overwhelms us. Today an aircraft from Group 9 of the Bolivarian Aviation crashed to the ground and unfortunately there were no survivors.”
Source: Ambito
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