Investigation on Apuseni aircraft crash almost over, no engine ‘technical anomalies’ detected
A year after the aircraft crash in Apuseni Mountains, which claimed two lives, authorities inform the investigation is almost over and that preliminary information issued by the engine producer reveals that no technical anomalies were detected at the plane’s engines.
Pilot Adrian Iovan and med student Aurelia Ion lost their lives during the crash on January 20, 2014. The aircraft crashed on an abrupt area of Apuseni Mountains, at over 1,400 meters altitude, on the border of Cluj and Alba counties.
Copilot Razvan Petrescu and other four doctors were injured. The medical team was heading from Bucharest to Oradea where it was supposed to get the liver of a 60-year-old donor who had suffered a stroke.
The aircraft’s wreck and the victims were found by three locals, after 5-hour searches. The media and the public opinion blamed authorities for their poor intervention reaction. Several officials from the Interior Ministry and from the local inspectorates for Emergency Situations lost their position.
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