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Air Force plane crash: the pilot managed to open the parachute, but did not avoid the impact

2020-08-06T17:01:31.901Z


According to witnesses, Captain Britos Venturini ejected a few meters from the ground. They rescued him alive, but he died on the way to the hospital.


Oscar Flores

08/06/2020 - 12:59

  • Clarín.com
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While awaiting the autopsy result to confirm the cause of death for pilot Gonzalo Fabián Britos Venturini (34), a technical and judicial commission is already working to determine the causes that led to the Air Force war plane crash. that rushed this Wednesday in the south of Córdoba.

The Military Aircraft Accident Investigation Board must intervene, said a source from the Air Force consulted. "It will take a long time due to the number of factors that influence the flight envelope," the spokesperson explained.

What would be confirmed, according to the first expert opinions and the testimonies of the witnesses, is that the pilot managed to eject correctly and his parachute opened, but it was not enough time for him to deploy to mitigate the impact. Witnesses who saw the accident said that the plane began to lose altitude and that they saw the pilot leave just a few meters from the crash of the ship.

Britos Venturini was found still alive by the Volunteer Firefighters in the town of Villa Valeria. He was lying on the chair in the tilled soil of a field, with the parachute open and deployed . The pilot was conscious at the time of ejection and suffered severe trauma in the fall. He passed away on the way to the hospital.

Britos Venturini died on the way to the hospital.

The accident was registered at 10.05 on Wednesday, when the plane crashed to the ground about 10 kilometers north of Villa Valeria, over a sector of the La Primavera establishment, almost on the border with the province of San Luis.

The plane, called the Falcon Fighter, is a US fighter-bomber that was armed for the Argentine Air Force in 1995. It belongs to the V Air Brigade with its seat in Villa Reynolds (San Luis), from where the internal emergency plan was activated.

The lifeless body of the pilot was transferred during the afternoon of Thursday to the morgue of the San Antonio de Padua Hospital in the Cordovan city of Río IV by order of Federal judge Carlos Ochoa, who is investigating the event.

According to the newspaper Puntal de Río IV, it was confirmed that the maintenance of the aircraft such as the one that crashed in Villa Valeria is carried out in the Material Area of ​​Río Cuarto. This work involves, among other things, periodic inspections  based on the hours of flight recorded, and other more extensive reviews.

The remains of the Air Force plane that crashed south of Córdoba.

Regarding the escape mechanism in case of accidents, sources consulted by this newspaper pointed out that the ejection seats are reviewed by a private company, while the Material Area of ​​Río Cuarto is in charge of minor controls in these cases.

Lucia Storani, criminal secretary of the Federal Court of Río Cuarto, specified that measures were quickly ordered to investigate the plane crash and the circumstances surrounding the death of Captain Gustavo Britos. On this point, she explained that "an aviation accident investigation board intervenes, specially formed for the case by the Armed Forces, which report to the Federal Court of Río Cuarto to advance the investigation."

The deceased pilot had reached the rank of captain, was 34 years old, and was a native of Paraná, Entre Ríos. After his initial studies in the II Brigade of the Argentine Air Force, based in the same city, he continued with his training in Córdoba, the capital. At present, he was carrying out test tasks that were coordinated from the Villa Reynolds base in San Luis.

Saint Louis. Correspondent

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Source: clarin

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