During the night the Land Mine Clearance Battalion continued to locate and mark munitions scattered from the aircraft wreckage
Throughout the night, the search continued around the place where the Antonov aircraft crashed on Saturday night, causing alarm to the authorities and the residents of the area.
During the night the Land Mine Clearance Battalion continued to locate and mark munitions scattered from the aircraft wreckage.
They will then be gathered and removed or neutralized on site, which will be decided by the echelon.
For this reason, it was deemed necessary that the ban on vehicle and pedestrian traffic in the rural areas of Antiphilippi and Paleochori remain in force until further notice.
Late last night it became known that the eight bodies of the Ukrainians who were on board the Antonov aircraft. The bodies were taken to the Komotini General Hospital to undergo a forensic examination, and will then be handed over to the Ukrainian authorities.
Besides, it seems that an object has also been found which is suspected to be the a black box of the aircraft, which raises the hope that it will provide answers to causes that led to the fall of the aircraft like a flaming ball.
The 38 minutes that led to the tragedy
The Civil Aviation Service (CAA) in its announcement points out that the Accident Investigation and Flight Safety Committee (EDAAP) has been assigned to the accident.
According to the CAA, the Ukrainian-registered Antonov 12 aircraft took off from Nis airport in Serbia with a crew of eight (8) and eleven and a half (11.5) tons of dangerous goods.
According to the flight plan he had submitted to the competent Serbian authorities, the aircraft would make a cargo flight to Bangladesh (Dhaka) with intermediate stops in Jordan (Amman) and Saudi Arabia (Riyadh).
It entered Greek airspace at 22:09 local time. At 22:37 the plane informed the Athens-Macedonia Area Control Center (KEPATHM) that due to a problem (operational reasons) it would not continue to its final destination and that it would return to the departure airport.
“May Day, Engine 4 Fire”
At 22:42 flying east of Halkidiki he informed the air traffic controllers on the approach to Thessaloniki that he has a problem with engine number four (4) stating: may day fire in engine four. The CAA immediately declared a state of emergency by activating the relevant procedures provided for. At 22:45 the aircraft had a conversation with the Kavala control tower and informed that it was heading for an emergency landing. Landing permission was immediately given for Chrysoupolis airport in Kavala. At 22:47 the aircraft was lost from air traffic radars.
The Civil Aviation Service, as stated in the relevant announcement, informed the National Coordination Center for Search and Rescue about the danger situation and then about the loss of communication and the process of identification, search and rescue started immediately. At the same time, all relevant bodies (Fire Service, Greek Police, Civil Protection, Ministry of National Defense and local bodies) were mobilized for the loss of the plane’s position in the wider area of ​​Kavala.
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