Axios
Pilot, two students injured in plane crash in northern Greece
The Committee for Investigating Airplane Accidents and Flight Safety (EDAAP) was on Monday investigating the circumstances under which a training flight went down in Kilkis, northern Greece, on Sunday, injuring the pilot and two Italian trainees.
The Cessna went down on an islet in the middle of the Axios River while heading back to Thessaloniki?s Makedonia Airport.
Small aircraft crashes in Axios river; three people rescued
A small training aircraft crashed on an islet on Axios river in Epirus on Sunday, at around 15.00 in the afternoon.
According to the fire department, three people were rescued, including the pilot and two Italian nationals. The pilot was slightly injured and the two other passengers are unharmed, but were transferred to the hospital of Kilkis for precautionary reasons.