Plane crashes while fighting fires in Greece, pilot survives

A water-propelled aircraft crashed this afternoon while extinguishing fires on the Greek island of Zante, and its pilot was not hurt, Greek firefighting services said.

The "Petzitel" plane was working to put out a small fire on the island located in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland Greece, when it crashed for an unknown reason, according to the same source.

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