Some businesses and households in the area suffered power cuts after the crash, possibly because the plane may have cut through cables or got burned by the explosion, local media said. The substance has been examined and not found to be radioactive or biological material hazardous to public health, the mayor of the wider region, Philippos Anastasiades, told reporters. Tried with anti-virus disabled too (using Malwarebyte). Ive re-installed, cleared both the game and MY Documents directory, disabled all two of my remaining mods, then uninstalled them, and it still crashes. They banned people from moving around the area and advised residents to keep doors and windows shut.Ī fire brigade official said on Sunday that firefighters “felt their lips burning” and white dust was floating in the air. Now, all of a sudden (after the STEAM 'update everything' update) the game will not launch. Greek authorities said the special disaster response unit and military staff, including mine clearance units, had been dispatched to the scene. It passed the mountain and turned and crashed into the fields.”
“It was full of smoke, it had a noise I can’t describe and went over the mountain. “I wonder how it didn’t fall on our houses,” one witness, Aimilia Tsaptanova, told reporters. Amateur video footage uploaded on showed the aircraft in flames descending fast before hitting the ground in what appeared to be an explosion.
Greek state TV ERT said the aircraft’s signal was lost soon after the pilot requested an emergency landing. The buyer of the cargo was the defence ministry of Bangladesh, he added.Ĭonfirming that account, Denys Bogdanovych, Meridian’s general director, said the crash had no relation to the war currently raging in Ukraine. Serbian Defence Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said the plane had been carrying 11.5 tonnes of products, including mortar and training shells, made by its defence industry. Six bodies have been located during an initial drone inspection of the area, a local mayor said.
Greek authorities have recovered the body of one crew member so far, a civil protection service spokesman said. Ukrainian-based airline Meridian, which operated the aircraft, confirmed that all eight crew members had died in the crash. Ukraine’s foreign ministry said they were all Ukrainian citizens. Earlier the pilot had reported engine trouble and had requested an emergency landing.ĭrone images from the scene showed smouldering debris from the Antonov An-12 aircraft strewn across fields. Witnesses said the aircraft had come down in a ball of flames near the city of Kavala before exploding on impact in corn fields around midnight local time. A Ukrainian cargo plane carrying munitions from Serbia to Bangladesh crashed in northern Greece late on Saturday (16 July), killing all eight crew members on board, Greek and Serbian authorities said on Sunday.