The researchers sought to establish Tuesday caused the crash of an F-16 Greek soldiers killed eleven for a NATO training at an air base in southeastern Spain.
According to the report released by the Spanish Ministry of Defence, the incident killed two Greek and nine French, the last of them died in a hospital in Madrid, and let other military twenty wounded, nine French and eleven Italians.
Among the French deceased contains a captain, according to the French Ministry of Defense.
As for the wounded, five French still hospitalized in serious but stable condition, like one of the Italian military.
Another nine wounded and were discharged French-four-five Italians, while the other five Italian wounded had to leave the hospital during Tuesday morning.
The Italian defense minister, Roberta Pinotti, realized, however, twelve injured while addressing the Senate.
In Greece, the new prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, Spain has sent the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Evangelos Tournas, according to the Greek press agency, while the Ministry of Defence has decreed mourning for the dead.
Numerous media on Tuesday moved around the air base of Los Llanos in Albacete province, 250km southeast of Madrid.
The accident occurred on Monday at 14h16 GMT when the plane lost power during takeoff and swerved to the right until colliding with another five combat aircraft parked two Italian AMX and two Alpha Jets one French Mirage 2000.
The crash caused a violent fire and poured a very toxic substance, hydrazine, which now prevent access to the area to recover the bodies, the media said the captain Jose Guerreira of air force.
Spanish Defense Minister, Pedro Morenés, and his French counterpart, Jean-Yves le Drian, plan to visit the base and injured.
The accident, which ended with the lives of two Greek F-16 pilots, is extremely rare or at least caused by an unusual chain of events, according to the head of the press service of the French Air Force, Colonel Jean-Pascal Breton.
A committee of technical investigation of air accidents Spanish army was responsible for collecting the remains of devices, find the black boxes, listening to the conversations of the pilots with the control tower and start a lengthy investigation and meticulous about their causes, said an official of Spanish Defence.
Meanwhile, a judge of Valencia has opened an investigation, while the Paris prosecutor also investigate the incident, for which members of the gendarmerie traveling to Spain.
This is the greatest disaster for the French armed forces in a single day since 2008, when ten soldiers were killed in an ambush in eastern Afghanistan. Most of those killed, including a woman, belonged to the airbase Nancy-Ochey, in eastern France, where the flags flying at half mast.
The accident occurred during training in This training center for elite pilots from ten different countries, where the Tactical Leadership Programme of NATO, “one of the most reputable and demanding formations in the world” according to an article published on the website of the French defense ministry develops.
The base of Los Llanos hosted since 2009 this program that allows pilots achieving the status of “head of mission” in international coalitions as sent to Libya in 2011 or the current operation in Iraq against the Islamic State (EI).
About 750 pilots and logistical support staff had gathered at the base for a program started January 19 who performed during joint exercises to enhance cooperation in the field and overcome differences technical and linguistic.
The F-16, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, is the best-selling fighter aircraft in the world. According to its constructor, there have been more than 4,500 copies for 28 countries
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