When the special commission finishes its work, will give official information about the causes of the crash with the plane that fell on Friday at the airport in Graf Ignatievo. During this flight, everything was recorded, including with a camera. However, the flight was part of a dress rehearsal for an upcoming air show. Records are required to correct potential hazards.
This is what Krasimir Karakachanov, former Minister of Defense, told bTV.
According to him, the fallen L-39 was at the extreme low limit of the earth's surface.
"The exercise is not the most complicated, but it is not easy either. In an airplane traveling at 500 km/h, even the slightest underestimation leads to a fatal error.
The problem is that every air base has a few good pilots who have enough time in the air. I know both of those who died - I gave Dunkin the diploma for graduating from the military school," Karakachanov said.
His opinion is that our politicians are hiding things and asking for resignations.
"When funds for an aviation are not allocated for a sufficient flight - this is what awaits us. Only aces have enough hours in the air.
I say it as a former military minister: the commanders of air bases and the Air Force write reports on maintaining the planes and conditions for the pilots to be trained. When I was minister, 8 planes flew, many others were repaired, L-39 - too.
The army is not for parades, we have commitments in NATO. Our politicians only learned Article 5, but before it there is Article 3 - that each state maintain its own army.
The problem is that maintenance has become difficult because of the war in Ukraine," Karakachanov added.
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FACTS recalls: Over the past 35 years, the Bulgarian political class has been slowly and with sadistic methodical destruction of the Bulgarian army and, in particular, the Bulgarian combat aviation.
Bulgarian politicians have no right to judge anyone but themselves for Bulgarian soldiers who died in accidents.