08/22/2021 4:23 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/22/2021 4:39 PM
An aircraft from Argentina
is in a "phase of uncertainty"
after taking off this Sunday to the
Laguna del Sauce
International Airport
in Uruguay, the Montevideo newspaper reported and confirmed with the Air Force spokesman, Colonel Marcelo Lorenze.
The aircraft disappeared from radar and failed to land at its destination.
This afternoon the Air Force's Air Squadron No. 5 (Helicopters)
began a search and rescue mission.
It is a
Piper PA-24 Comanche
aircraft
,
according to FM Gente.
According to what was reported by that station, the primary information indicates that
two crew members
were traveling on the ship
and they would have left San Fernando.
#Now |
They are looking for the missing LV-CVT aircraft from Buenos Aires bound for the Laguna del Sauce airport (Punta del Este) from which all contact with it was lost approximately 40km north of the airport prior to its arrival.
pic.twitter.com/TrdH6pCB22
- Aeronáutica Uruguay (@aeronauticauy) August 22, 2021
The Uruguayan journalist and aviator
Marcelo Umpierrez
reported that it is the LV-CVT aircraft and that the pilot "was in communication with the Control Tower," which was lost and did not arrive at the airport.
"Rescue 1 SAR of the Air Force is in flight. He is also on the ground in Solís de Mataojo working Caminera," he wrote on Twitter.
# Attention Please tell me that the LV-CVT aircraft is indeed Argentine and that the pilot was in communication with the Control Tower, which got lost and did not arrive at #SULS.
Rescue 1 SAR of the Air Force is in flight.
He is also on land in Solís de Mataojo working Caminera https://t.co/CVDwhLCUSq
- Marcelo Umpierrez (@emekavoces) August 22, 2021
According to Wikipedia, this plane is propeller and has capacity for four passengers.
"It is a light aircraft of monocoque construction and retractable tricycle landing gear", they detail.
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