Detailed information regarding the impact of the aircraft will be given at 18:00 in the afternoon by the Fire Department.
No dangerous substance was found in the load of the fatal Antonov that crashed yesterday shortly before dawn in Paleochori Kavala according to Mayor Pangaios.
No dangerous material has been found that worries us, the mayor of Pangaiou, Philippos Anastasiadis, told SKAI 100.3.
In any case, detailed information regarding the impact of the aircraft will be given by the Fire Department at 18:00 in the afternoon.
The operation to control the location of the wreckage of the aircraft by the Special Response Company for Nuclear-Biological-Chemical Defense will be completed shortly and the collection of the 6 bodies by EMAK is expected to begin.
Two of the dead have not yet been identified.
Investigations at the site will continue alongside the process of collecting the scattered projectiles.
An all-night thriller took place in Kavala, where last night just before 23:00 an Antonov type aircraft, which had a crew of eight, crashed.
With the first light of day, the efforts of the Fire Department and men of the armed forces began to investigate the spot where Antonov aircraft crashed last night, in the community of Antifilippi of the municipality of Pangaios, west of Kavala.
According to the Major General of the Fire Department, Mario Apostolidishead of the operational team, “men from the fire service with special equipment and measuring instruments approached the site of the impact of the aircraft and saw closely the fuselage and other parts of it scattered in the fields”.
Mr. Apostolidis underlined that the on-site investigation “found instability in the field, as there are smoke and intense heat, but also a white substance of unknown originhowever the measuring instruments did not show anything alarming.
He also pointed out that from the first images, it appears that many parts of the aircraft are scattered in different places in rural areas.
He insisted that no process would proceed unless it was first established that the site was completely safe for the men who would be operating there.
Possibility of evacuation of the settlement
The mayor of Pangai, Philippos Anastasiadis, reported earlier to SKAI that the aircraft carried ammunition. He said that the possibility of evacuating the settlement of Antiphilippi is being considered, in order to carry out the investigations without interruption, but also to protect the health of the citizens.
According to what the envoy of SKAI, Christos Hatzimisis, broadcasts in the area there is a strange smellthat is why a message was sent from 112 to the residents to stay in their homes with closed doors and windows and to keep the air conditioners off so that air from outside does not enter their homes.
The aircraft had taken off from Ukraine. Before the cargo route from Serbia to Jordan, he had visited Turkey.
On the maps it is recorded to make a 180 degree turn, while flying over the sea near Mount Athos in the direction of Chrysoupoli.
However, it did not reach the airport and its signal was lost from the radar, as it went down in flames near the settlement of Paleochori.
Sources close to the Civil Aviation Authority said that the pilot informed that the aircraft had suffered an engine failure and requested permission to make an emergency landing.
“They saw it fall on fire even from Drama,” the chairman of the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Pangaio, Christos Bosbotis, told SKAI.
“The crash caused explosions and there are toxic gases in the atmosphere, which is why the fire brigade issued initial recommendations for the use of masks to the residents of the area, while subsequently calling on them to close the doors and windows of the houses, and not to open the air conditioners .
The crash site has been cordoned off by police.
The pilot, according to the first information, shortly before 11 p.m., had requested permission to make an emergency landing due to a breakdown at the Kavala airport, but he did not manage to get there as a fire broke out in one engine in flight and the four-engine aircraft went down .
According to the report, the aircraft was lost from radar ten miles west of Kavala airport and while it had received permission for an emergency landing, having reported the breakdown.
The aircraft belonged to the Serbian army.
After the plane went down, there were repeated explosions.
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