The army and the military cannot be a doormat for our incompetent politicians. As far as I know, the plane that crashed in "Graf Ignatievo" was at an altitude of 50 meters, well below the permissible lower limit (300 meters). In my opinion, this will be the cause of the accident. Aircraft must be maintained, modernization of the Air Force was last carried out 5-6 years ago - while I was minister. Their airworthiness must be restored every 2 years, engines and electronics must be refitted. If no one took care of them for the last 3 years, there are only 4 L-39 ZA combat training aircraft left, which fly out of a total of 12. At the time when I repaired half of the machines, it cost about 14 million BGN.< /strong>
This is what he said in "Offensive with Ljubo Ognyanov" the former Minister of Defense Krasimir Karakachanov.
"Many people photographed the flight as it was a general rehearsal. One inadvertent small mistake, when flying at nearly 500 km/h and performing a loop, everything happens in fractions of a second," he explained.
In his words, through pressure and lobbying in parliament, he managed to secure funds for the repair of military aviation. "All our planes flew during my administration. The point is to do work as a minister, not just go on business trips abroad. It is not the fault of the soldiers, for decades politicians thought that the army was for parades or simply unnecessary. One of the dead - Major Dimitrov, has over 1,800 hours in the air, and the other - Senior Lieutenant Dunkin, is also experienced, although younger. Both were very good pilots, but very often the self-confidence that you are very good leads to fatal consequences", Karakachanov believes.
Regarding the visit of North Macedonian President Gordana Siljanovska, he noted that her country still does not consider that their entry into the EU depends on Bulgaria. "They don't want to include us in their Constitution, but they also pursue a provocative and aggressive policy towards us. Bulgaria already has new political immigration from the Republic of Macedonia," the leader of the VMRO pointed out.