A Turkish firefighting aircraft crashed in Croatia on Thursday, leaving its pilot dead, Türkiye's Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumakli said, reported Xinhua.
"The wreckage of our firefighting aircraft belonging to the General Directorate of Forestry, which lost radio contact in Croatia, has been located near the town of Senj in Croatia," Yumakli said on social media platform X.
In an earlier statement, the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry said two AT-802 planes operated by the General Directorate of Forestry, a public institution affiliated with the ministry, had departed from the northwestern province of Canakkale on Wednesday morning to undergo scheduled maintenance in Zagreb, capital of Croatia.
Due to poor weather, both aircraft were forced to remain overnight on Wednesday at Rijeka Airport in western Croatia's city of Rijeka, said the statement.
They then took off on Thursday afternoon, but were forced to head back to the airport amid worsening weather, with one of them landing successfully, while the other's radio contact lost at 6:25 p.m. local time (1525 GMT), it added.
- Firefighting aircraft
- Turkey
- Crashes
- Croatia
Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
