A pilot died and another was injured in a collision between two small planes involved in one of them live To Beja in southern Portugal.
The two pilots belong to one A stunt patrol called Yak Stars, Made up of Spanish and Portuguese pilots. The dead man was of Spanish nationality and the injured pilot was Portuguese. El Faro de Vigo newspaper reported that the fatal victim was Galician Manuel Rey Cordero, a Fueling pilot.
As reported by the Portuguese Air Force, the two pilots were performing a demonstration exercise at the Beja Air Show with Six planes Flying in a coordinated manner. At some point, one of them broke off, began to lose altitude and then shot off and collided with another device in the middle of a large chimney.
The shattered device fell outside the perimeter of the air base, while the second was able to land on the runway.
The patrol was piloting Iakovlev IAC-52It is a small Soviet-designed device used in many exercises and also in aerobatics.
It is not yet known why the two planes collided mid-flight. The Portuguese Defense Minister confirmed that one would be opened Investigation to determine causes Micro collision.
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