The search for the missing plane extends from Torrent de Pareis to Port de Pollença
During the night, two airplanes and a helicopter of the rescue service of the Air Force, SAR, have flown over the area with night vision equipment -Dawn media are available to join the tracking the aerial resources of the Balearic Institute of Nature
Lorenzo Marina Efe. Palm 13.06.2018 | 10:29
The search for the missing plane extends from Torrent de Pareis to Port de Pollença
The search for the missing plane extends from Torrent de Pareis to Port de Pollença
The search teams that since yesterday fly over the area of the northeast of Mallorca where in the afternoon the trace of a firefighting plane was lost have not found any sign of the device, in which only the pilot was traveling. The search is centered from the Torrent de Pareis towards the Port de Pollença, the upper part of the Serra de Tramuntana, since contact with the aircraft was lost when flying over Cala Sant Vicenç.
Aerial, maritime and terrestrial media have mobilized this morning to try to locate the Air Tractor 802 of the Balearic Institute of Nature (Ibanat), charge on land called cargo on land, called " Red ". disappeared Tuesday afternoon. During the night, two planes and one helicopter of the rescue service of the Air Force, SAR , have flown over the area with night vision equipment without any result, as reported to Efe by a spokesman of the General Directorate of Emergencies of the Government .
Since dawn, the aerial resources of the Balearic Institute of Nature (Ibanat) have been added to the tracking tasks . Meanwhile, Salvamento Marítimo has mobilized Salvamar Saiph in the sea, based in Alcúdia. The SAR is coordinating all the rescue tasks and the movements of the different forces.
In the plane, only the pilot was traveling, which, according to emergency services sources, was carrying out a reconnaissance flight. The aircraft was in the area of Cala Sant Vicenç when, at 18:08 hours it contacted for the last time with the Forest Fire Coordination Center. There his trace was lost. All calls by radio and telephone to its occupant, who had not issued any notice, were left unanswered.
Minutes later, a search operation was launched and a SAR aircraft and helicopter from the peninsula were incorporated in the afternoon. In the evening a third military apparatus was added.
The Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries, Vicenç Vidal , the Director General of Emergencies and Interior, Pere Perelló, and other policy makers and technicians involved in the search operation have convened a press conference at 10.00 am to report the latest news.
