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27TH AUGUST - 2ND SEPTEMBER 2019 - EDITION 802
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Air Force plane crashes off La Manga the Air Force Display Team ‘Eagle Patrol’ at San Javier Miitary Air Academy, has plummeted into the sea about four kilometres off La Manga. At the moment, vessels from the Copla Emergency Plan have activated a level 1 rescue and are mobilised in search of the pilot who had managed to eject, while the causes of the accident are still unknown.
An Air Force plane crashed into the sea a few kilometres off La Manga yesterday morning. Sources from the City Council in San Javier and the Academy of the Air
Force are aware of the accident and confirmed that the craft was a C-101 reactor. The Councillor for Transparency, Citizen Participation and Public Administration, Beatriz Ballesteros, said that the pilot managed to eject from the aircraft before the crash. However, at time of going to press the crew were still missing at sea. The 112 Emergency Coordination
Centre for the Murcia region has confirmed that around a hundred calls were received alerting authorities to the incident, indicating that "a fighter plane has fallen from the sky and crashed into the sea." The Mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo, has also confirmed the plane crash. He explained that the plane, a C101, 'hunter' type, which is often used by
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