Single-engine plane crashes into home in Cyprus

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Limassol. At least two people have died at a Cypriot army aircraft crash in the village of Kolossi this morning, west of the island's southern coastal town of Limassol.

Kolossi is a community of some 2,000 Britons, Germans and Cypriots.

Director of the President's Press Office Marios Karoyan told CNA that the aircraft was a PC - 9 (Pilatus). It is one of the two training military aircraft of the National Guard (Cyprus Army) and according to the first reports two people have died, believed to be the two pilots.

Defence Minister Kyriakos Mavronicolas and National Guard Commander Lieutenant-General Athanasios Nikolodemos have rushed to the area. Ambulances and fire engines are in the area.

Sources

"Single-engine plane crashes into home on Cyprus" — Reuters, Sep 10, 2005

"Cypriot military plane crashes" — Cyprus News Agency, Sep 10, 2005

"Two dead from military plane crash" — Cyprus News Agency, Sep 10, 2005

Anna Kourti. "Military Plane Crash" — ERT, Sep 10, 2005

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