The plane had taken off from the Cuatro Vientos airport roughly 40 minutes earlier than the accident The flight had handed with out incident till they reached the M512 freeway, the place they had been going to a site visitors surveillance exercise It additionally confirms that three folks had been touring within the DGT helicopter
The pilot of the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) who examined constructive for medication, after the helicopter he was flying crashed this previous Sunday, has declared that he had simply entered a stationary flight when the system “sank” and will not regain management till it hits the bottom.
According to the preliminary report of the incident ready by the Civil Aviation Accident and Incident Investigation Commission (CIAIAC) to which EFE has had entry, the plane had taken off from the Cuatro Vientos airport roughly 40 minutes earlier than the accident, which occurred within the municipal space. from Robledo de Chavela (Madrid).
The flight had handed with out incident till they reached the M512 highway, the place they had been going to a site visitors surveillance exercise.
According to the pilot’s description included within the report, that they had simply entered a hover when the helicopter “dipped down.”
The pilot then started a descent and a flip to the fitting to attempt to regain management, however the helicopter made contact with the bottom in the other way to the one it had in the beginning of the manoeuvre.
After hitting the bottom, the plane got here to relaxation 167 meters from the M-512 freeway, on a steep financial institution leaning on its left facet, with the tail cone indifferent from the fuselage and beneath it.
The preliminary report of the CIAIAC, underneath the Ministry of Transport, provides that the stays of the plane had been concentrated in a radius of 40 meters across the helicopter and that the occupants left the helicopter by their very own means.
It additionally confirms that three folks had been touring within the DGT helicopter, two crew members and a passenger.
Sources near the investigation have assured EFE that the flight was scheduled a while in the past and that solely the pilot, who examined constructive for cocaine and amphetamines after the incident, and a crew member in control of the surveillance digital camera that carries the plane had been to journey on it.
For their half, sources from the General Directorate of Traffic have instructed EFE that an inner “reserved info” has been opened to look at the way in which wherein the pilot, who was arrested by the Civil Guard accused of against the law towards air security, proceeded.
It is, in response to the sources, a step previous to the opening of a disciplinary file, for the reason that investigation into the particular causes of the incident continues to be open.
The DGT dismisses this kind of “malpractice” amongst its staff as “reprehensible” and, if the accountability of the pilot within the occasion is clarified, they’ll take the suitable measures.
The crashed helicopter is a Eurocopter AS355 N Ecureuil 2, an plane valued at about three million euros and operated in Spain by the regional police, site visitors and forestry brokers.