A Mirage 2000 Air Base 116 of Luxeuil-les-Bains (Haute-Saône) crashed for unknown reason in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday in the Creuse while pilot and navigator, two experienced military, could not be found at midday.
The wreckage was located at approximately 8:00 to "St.-near-Oradoux Crocq, at a place called The Mouneix", east of the Creuse, said in a statement prefecture hollow, indicating that they had "initiated the plan Sater (Ed.: Rescue air-land) and coordinated search operations ", suspended half past one end of the night due to bad weather.
The plane that crashed at night near a pond," as it hit the ground, made a huge crater filled with water, "he told AFP the prefect of the Creuse, Claude Serra.
" The pilots have not been heard from since last night "and" no echo tag "was captured" for the moment, "said Warden." In the event of ejection, a distress signal is automatically triggered. But here, we have received no signal, "said an AFP correspondent Colonel William Kurtz, Sirpa (information service and public relations of armies) Air.
Captain Eric Trihoreau, head of media Sirpa Air, spoke of his side research hampered by the weather "very bad" and a "very heavy fog.
Wednesday morning, rescue s Endeavour to drain the crater to see if the bodies of two pilots were within the debris device.
According to Sirpa Air plane, a Mirage 2000 N of the fighter squadron 2 / 4 Lafayette airbase Luxeuil-les-Bains, took off at 8:20 p.m. for a mission of flight training at night in very low altitude. A two pilots highly experienced and for a "traditional mission" that "showed nothing unusual," according to the BA 116 of Luxeuil.
At 9:20 p.m., for reasons still unknown, the aircraft disappeared from radar screens at Aubusson, by Sirpa Air.
"The warning given research were immediately launched by the Air Force (Puma helicopters of the air base and Fennec Cazaux Base Villacoublay), the police and firemen of the Creuse, reinforced by elements of the Army , "the source said.
" We watched TV when we felt a huge blast and then a blast. It was believed that a building had collapsed, "he testified to a AFP correspondent Yvette Bellet, whose house is located a few hundred yards from the crash.
The Mayor of Villetelle, neighboring municipality of San Oradoux, Jacques Beef said his side have found the plane Wednesday at 08:00, after hearing him spend the night before.
"You told me earlier that there were traces on the road Crocq (...). I found pieces of parachute in the trees. The aircraft (.. .) dug deep in the mud several hundreds of meters from a swamp, "says he, indicating that they immediately gave the alarm.
On May 11, 2010, a Mirage 2000 from the BA 118 Mont-de-Marsan had crashed in the Landes. The pilot, who had been ejected, was unharmed.
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