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Greek fighter jet crashes into sea, pilot rescued
A Greek Air Force F-16 (Block 52+ variant) fighter jet crashed into a sea off the small island of Psathoura, in the northern Aegean.
The pilot managed to escape from the single seater aircraft using the ejection system. He was located and collected by a Super Puma helicopter and is being transferred to hospital.
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Firefighting aircraft crashes while battling Evia wildfire
A search and rescue operation is underway for two airmen on the island of Evia after their Canadair firefighting aircraft crashed while battling the wildfire that is raging in the southern part of the island.
A helicopter crashed near kindergarten: minister dies; Who shot it down? VIDEO/PHOTO
There are also injured.
The police announced that at least 16 people were dead, including two children. Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky and his assistant were also killed. The helicopter that crashed belonged to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, i.e. the emergency department.
Kinaros islander found safe and sound
Rescue teams on Thursday reportedly found the sole inhabitant of the remote island of Kinaros in the southeastern Aegean who had been reported missing by concerned relatives after they had been unable to reach her on the phone for three days.
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3 missing surfers found
Three surfers that had gone missing earlier Thursday have been found and are in good health, Greece's coast guard has announced.
The three made it back to the coast, northeast of Athens, on their own, the coast guard say.
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Search under way for three surfers off Schinias
The Hellenic Coast Guard on Thursday launched a search for three surfers reported missing off Schinias in northeastern Attica.
A Coast Guard vessel was being aided by a private vessel while a Super Puma navy rescue helicopter was to join the search.
Winds in the area were north-northwesterly and measuring 6 on the Beaufort scale when the surfers went missing.
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Teen rescued on Mount Olympus is well in his health, says hospital
An underage hiker who was injured while climbing Mount Olympus in central Greece is well in his health, the hospital where he was transferred said in a statement Saturday.
Helicopter crashes in sea off Poros
A helicopter has crashed into the sea off the coast of the Saronic island of Poros, reports said Tuesday.
According to Greece's state-run Athens-Macedonia news agency, the aircraft, said to be a privately-owned Agusta 109 helicopter, tangled in power lines before plummeting into the water.
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Accident over Aegean narrowly averted
An accident was narrowly averted on Friday after a Turkish F-16 fighter jet reportedly harassed a Greek Super Puma helicopter, according to reports that emerged on Saturday.
The incident occurred shortly before noon south of the eastern Aegean islet of Farmakonisi as the Super Puma conducted a search for a boat carrying illegal migrants.
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INTERVIEW/Serge Durand(Airbus): We've been here for five decades; if Romania wants, we stay five more
Airbus has been in Romania for five decades and "should Romania wish so", it can stay for another 50 years, Serge Durand, the head of Airbus Romania told an interview granted to AGERPRES.