An Air Force aerobatic pilot made an emergency landing in a field Sunday morning in the Gers after an engine failure, without causing injury, announced SIRPA Air.
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Captain Alexandre Orlowski, former world aerobatic champion,
faced
"
an engine failure which led him to make an emergency landing in a field near Mirande,
" SIRPA Air said in a press release. .
This former Mirage 2000-5 pilot, accompanied by a mechanic, was at the controls of an Extra 300 and returned to his base in Salon-de-Provence after an airshow in Biarritz.
The aircraft was damaged at the landing gear.
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The maneuver turned out to be particularly delicate because it was necessary to quickly find a place to land the device, explained the head of SIRPA Air, Colonel Stéphane Spet, to AFP.
"
The pilot managed to find one that was the right size, a little bit of slope too and he landed at the limits of the plane, that is to say those of 'he flies or he falls "
", He noted.
The investigation was entrusted to the Accident Investigation Bureau for the Safety of State Aeronautics.
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