It is a rare fact: an aerobatic pilot of the Air Force made an emergency landing in a field, Sunday morning in the Gers, after an engine failure, and without causing injury, announced the SIRPA Air.
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 aerial meeeting in Biarritz.
The aircraft was damaged at the landing gear.
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.