`On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 12:15, a single-seat aircraft M2000-5 of the 114th Combat Wing and 331st Squadron, crashed in the sea while approaching landing, following an operational mission, at a distance of nine nautical miles northeast of the island of Skyros, leading to the fatal injury of the aircraft´s pilot, flight lieutenant Georgios Baltadoros. A relevant commission has been drawn to investigate the accident.` That´s the matter-of-fact military manner way the Hellenic Air Force described the death of a brave pilot, a 34-year-old fighter with a family, who was returning from a mission to intercept Turkish fighter jets that regularly invade Greek airspace with impunity, with no...
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