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Pilot dies in Spanish military plane crash
MADRID, Aug 26, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – A military flight instructor died after
his plane crashed on Monday at sea off the southeastern coast of Spain,
authorities said.
The C-101 — the same aircraft used by Spain’s air force Eagle Patrol
aerobatics team — was on a training flight when it crashed near the resort
of La Manga, the defence ministry said.
“All my love to the family of Captain Francisco Marin, who died in an
accident in La Manga,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tweeted.
The defence ministry had said Marin, a flight instructor, had been “able to
eject before the plane crashed in the sea”.
It is unclear what the cause of the crash was, or how Marin died.
A video filmed by a witness and posted on Twitter shows a small aircraft
falling at a near vertical before trying to straighten up and hurtling into
the water.
BSS/AFP/SSS/1958 hrs