A Spanish officer died on Thursday at the helm of an Air Force acrobatic patrol plane that crashed in the Mediterranean along the east coast of Spain, the institution announced. . After reporting that debris from the aircraft had been found, the Air Force reported on its Twitter account that the commander had died.
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However, two fatal accidents of military aircraft of the same type had already occurred in August and September in this same sector, near Murcia, during training flights of aircraft departing from the base of San Javier in Andalusia (south) . The accident of the C-101 plane at sea occurred Thursday afternoon near Murcia (southeast), said the Air Force. It was a training flight of a small plane belonging to the Aguila patrol ("Aigle"), the aerobatic squadron which consists of CASA C-101 of Spanish manufacture.
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In August, a military instructor died after his plane fell in this area. Then, in September, an instructor pilot and his student were killed there during a training flight. In January, Defense Minister Margarita Robles visited the Air Military School in San Javier. According to press reports, it then announced that contracts had been signed to purchase 24 new training aircraft to replace the end-of-life C-101s. The purpose of his visit was to express solidarity after the fatal accidents that affected the base, said the ministry.
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