- Mallorca. Seven dead, two of them minors, after crashing into the air a helicopter and a small plane
A few minutes ago Juanjo Vidal, one of those killed in the Mallorca air accident, had left the Binissalem airfield after 13.15 hours accompanied by his friend Gustavo, when the Aeroprakt A22L2, a modern two-seater aircraft piloting property of this Balearic businessman Born in Valencia, married and childless, he crashed just over 300 meters high with a Bell 206L Long Ranger (Rotorflug) helicopter. A ship, this one, piloted by the Italian Leoni aboard which were the four members of a family of German origin, the others killed in the plane crash in Mallorca.
The distance from the airfield from which Vidal departed, and where his wife was at the time of the accident, and the place of the accident does not exceed 8 minutes that were the ones that Vidal's aircraft would take, approximately, in the air in Your second flight of the day. The seven people involved in the collision died in the act once both aircraft fell, the first along the road from Sencelles to Sineu, and the helicopter in the garden of a house. All this one kilometer from the Inca Hospital. Ultralight and helicopter caught fire at the time of falling to the ground causing the tragic outcome.
Vidal was a well-known pilot of the small airfield of Binissalem where he had been assiduous for a year and a half. He had extensive experience and flight hours, as they pointed out yesterday from the airfield where his plane was based.
"He was a great kid," Juan Carbonell, an acquaintance of the ultralight amateur pilot, told Efe. Carbonell went to the place and said that the wife of the deceased has told him that he has witnessed what happened from the airfield.
The helicopter had its base against Palma, specifically at the Son Bonet airfield (Marratxi). Everything indicates that he had moved to the city of Manacor to a private estate to collect the deceased family.
At the time of the collision, it was flying to Palma while the plane did it in the direction of the coastal town of Alcúdia, according to eyewitnesses. Although it will be the police investigations that dictate the causes of the coalition, from the Binissalem airfield they pointed to "a slight touch" between the two ships.
"We will have to see what has happened but everything indicates that they have not seen each other, they have touched one on the right and the other on the left, and they have fallen," said a spokesman for the Binissalem airfield. Unlike commercial aviation, airplanes and helicopters of the Mallorca air accident are equipped with a navigation system connected to a control center but have GPS.
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