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Title: Spaniards: Any further news on missing Spanish F-5E aircraft?
Post by: Replicant on January 27, 2006, 02:53:02 PM

I heard that a Spanish Air Force F-5E went missing today.  Has there been any further news?  Just that it turns out to be my senior boss' son piloting the aircraft.

Title: Spaniards: Any further news on missing Spanish F-5E aircraft?
Post by: CyranoAH on January 27, 2006, 04:10:40 PM

CFIT, 2 fatalities. Sorry :(

Very bad weather around here. Marginal visibility is the most probable cause of the accident right now.

Daniel

Title: Spaniards: Any further news on missing Spanish F-5E aircraft?
Post by: Replicant on January 28, 2006, 03:24:59 AM

Tragic.  Captain Raúl Garzón Ruiz was the son of my senior boss.  RIP :(

I've now found this:

Two killed as combat plane crashes in bad weather

By: ThinkSpain

A Guardia Civil rescue team has found the bodies of the two Spanish Air Force pilots of an F-5 combat training plane which crashed near Talavera la Real Air Base in the province of Badajoz earlier today.

They have been identified as 31 year old instructor, Captain Raúl Garzón Ruiz, and his 24 year old pupil, Second Lieutenant Gabriel Garrido Muñoz.

The plane disappeared off the air base's radar screens shortly after 12 noon over the town of Burguillos del Cerro, close to where the remains of the plane and the bodies of the two pilots were found.

An investigation has been opened to determine the cause of the crash, but it is thought that poor weather conditions may have been a major contributory factor.  
 
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