Greece's general staff on Friday said the entire three-member crew of a navy helicopter that crashed into an Aegean Sea islet a day earlier had perished, after finding the pilot's body.
"The airman's body was found early this morning in the area of the crash," a general staff spokesman told AFP.
The bodies of the two other crewmen killed when their helicopter crashed into the small Dodecanese islet of Kinaros during a pre-dawn exercise had been recovered on Thursday.
The Agusta Bell helicopter had launched off a frigate and was last known to be flying at 400 feet (122 metres) but had given no sign of trouble before the crash, Greek armed forces chief Evangelos Apostolakis told a briefing on Thursday.
"The (helicopter's) signal was lost at (0045 GMT)... and a thermal signal was located at (0240) on a mountainous area on Kinaros," a navy spokesman told the briefing.
Kammenos cut short his participation in a NATO summit in Brussels and returned to Athens because of the incident.
Greece’s general staff on Friday said the entire three-member crew of a navy helicopter that crashed into an Aegean Sea islet a day earlier had perished, after finding the pilot’s body.
“The airman’s body was found early this morning in the area of the crash,” a general staff spokesman told AFP.
The bodies of the two other crewmen killed when their helicopter crashed into the small Dodecanese islet of Kinaros during a pre-dawn exercise had been recovered on Thursday.
The Agusta Bell helicopter had launched off a frigate and was last known to be flying at 400 feet (122 metres) but had given no sign of trouble before the crash, Greek armed forces chief Evangelos Apostolakis told a briefing on Thursday.
“The (helicopter’s) signal was lost at (0045 GMT)… and a thermal signal was located at (0240) on a mountainous area on Kinaros,” a navy spokesman told the briefing.
Kammenos cut short his participation in a NATO summit in Brussels and returned to Athens because of the incident.
