The Spanish Army assured that the captain “is already in the hospital and his life is not in danger.”
A plane of the Army of Spain performing an exhibition crashed today at the air base of Saragossa in that country and the pilot He managed to get out and is alive, according to sources from that force.
It all happened when an F-18 plane crashed around noon at the Zaragoza airbase during an exhibition, where the pilot managed to eject before impact, sources from the Spanish Air Force informed Europa Press. The sources specified that the pilot “is well”, although the details of his state of health are unknown.
Social networks quickly viralized a video recorded manually by workers in the area, where you can see how the plane explodes after the crashwhich generated the astonishment of the workers in the aerial zone.
The pilot’s state of health
However, the pilot managed to eject in time and miraculously saved his life because, as the pictures show, the plane went into a tailspin.
The Air and Space Army, the name by which Spain’s local air forces are known, reported on its networks about the pilot’s state of health: “The pilot of the crashed F18 is already in the hospital and his life is not in danger”.
Minutes before, the official Air Force Twitter user announced the accident: “This morning there was an accident at the Zaragoza Air Base involving an F18 from Ala 15. The pilot ejected satisfactorily and the plane fell into the base perimeter”.
However, local media reports indicate that the pilot, a captain with more than 1,000 flight hours and a lot of experience, would have suffered trauma. on the legs, hips and arms.
Source: Ambito
