U.S. F-16 disappeared, found the pilot's body in the waters of the Adriatic

( Translated ) To be sure it will be necessary to wait for the official recognition. But the body surfaced in the Adriatic Sea, opposite the coast of Pesaro, is believed to be that of Lucas Gruenther, 32, the pilot of the F16 Fighting Falcon CM of U.S. nationals disappeared from radar on 28 January . Sightings around 14 to 4 miles offshore - about seventy miles from where they were found some of the wreckage of the bomber - was first spotted and then recovered by means of the Coast Guard that day are patrolling the area from Cervia to the south.

While you are waiting by the military authorities, U.S. examination of the corpse, still wearing his uniform, he had heard that the pilot precipitate has a brother, Alexander, who was also in the Air Force and with the degree of Captain served at the NATO base in Brussels. In addition, he is married and his wife, who is pregnant, has come to the end of pregnancy as your due date is expected to be in about ten days.

It was expected that the body of Lucas Gruenther would be found within a short now. After the initial trails of fuel and the first scrap metal found in trawler nets of fishermen in Lido di Savio and Cervia, near Ravenna, with the passing of time had been found other residues of the means of war, and finally a parachute. This had raised hopes that the pilot was launched, although from the first moments was considered unlikely . Indeed, the parachute is the plane, not the pilot, which therefore may not have had time to eject due to the failure too sudden.



With regard to the findings, it was was then the turn of the helmet of the soldier, rescued by a Coast Guard patrol boat less than 10 miles northeast of Pesaro. At this point, the commander of the USAF base at Aviano (Pordenone), hence the F16 was started at 18:04 on 28 January in which he was returning, he commented: "Although they are not specifically designed for reconnaissance, our F16 systems Pointing that can be used for more accurate results. Now that the ships and surveillance aircraft have refined the search area, we hope to help put more sensors and eyes. The search operation in the Adriatic is really wide. I am grateful to the many professionals and Italian Americans who are conducting this mission and I hope we can bring home the captain in safety. "

Then instead of the news of the discovery of the corpse, according to initial reports, would bring the ' amputation of the head while the rest of the body seems essentially intact. It will be an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death and once it identified the aircraft will proceed to the recovery of the black box from which to extract a lot of information missing on the cause of the accident.

Disaster that occurred when the training flight was almost over. Had taken off from Aviano 4 F16 flying in pairs and at 19:57 Gruenther Lucas had reported an unnamed problem. Within five minutes the unit has stopped communicating on the ground and the last signal was picked up just after 20 from the air operations command (Coa) of Poggio Renatico, in the province of Ferrara. Within half an hour the first Coast Guard patrol boats were off Cervia to start the research to which are added, military and Italian Americans, as well as merchant ships and fishing boats.

Source : İlfattoquotidiano

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