Phantom crash: Awaiting the final conclusion on the causes of the accident – Tomorrow the funeral of Marios Turoutsikas

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The authorities are continuing their investigation in order to establish the causes of the fatal Phantom crash

With the identification of the 31-year-old captain Efstathios Tsitlakidis, captain of the fatal Phantom that crashed in the area of ​​Andravida last Monday morning, the epilogue of the tragedy was written.

“The General Aviation Staff announces that today, Wednesday, February 1, 2023, the search and rescue operations to locate the pilot of the F-4E Phantom II aircraft, Sergeant Major (I) Efstathiou Tsitlakides, 31 years old, following the plane crash of the 30 January 2023, 25 nautical miles south of the airport of Andravida. The gathering and analysis of the findings confirmed his death” says the announcement of the GEA, spreading sadness to the family of the 31-year-old.

The 31-year-old squad leader Efstathios Tsitlakidis

However, the Authorities continue their investigation in order to establish the causes of the fatal Phantom crash. The finding on the causes is expected to be issued only after the completion of the thorough investigation being conducted.

On Wednesday morning, the head of the GEETHA, general Konstantinos Floros, and the head of the GEA, vice-general Themistoklis Bourolias, went to the village of Granitis in Kato Nevrokopi and condoled with the parents of the 31-year-old dead squadron leader. Yesterday, they visited the family of 29-year-old Sergeant Major Marios-Michael Turoutsikas, in Arcadia.

In Tripoli, the funeral of the 29-year-old

Tomorrow, Thursday, the funeral of 29-year-old Lieutenant Marios Michael Turoutsikas is expected to take place. Today the parents of the deceased 29-year-old have been called to identify the body. It is a painful process, in which Mario’s father – Michael cannot bear to be present, as he stated to ERT.

“I don’t want to remember him like that. I want to remember him as he was,” he said with a broken voice, emphasizing that his son “would not like to be called a hero, he said that we have heroes in times of war. He had Iliakis as his model.”

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Minister of National Defense Nikos Panagiotopoulos will attend the funeral. The Minister of National Defense will also attend the funeral of Sminagos (I) Efstathios Tsitlakidis, on Friday, in Nevrokopi, where he will represent the government.

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