Two people died this Friday after a plane crashed in a mountain area in the Leonese municipality of Cimanes del Tejar, as reported by 112 Castile and León.
The Air Search and Rescue Service (SAR) of the Air Force communicated at around 2:38 p.m. this Friday to the 112 operating room that contact with a small plane had been lostwith two people on board, about fifteen miles from the Leonese capital. In addition, it indicated that it was a local flight with takeoff and landing at the León airfield.
The 112 emergency center has immediately notified the Civil Guardto the León Fire Department, to the Military Emergency Unit (EMU), to the Local Police of Valverde de la Virgen, to the Environment of León, to the Red Cross and Sacyl, on a preventive basis, and the Coordinating Center of Emergencies of the Junta de Castilla y León, which has coordinated the search for the plane.
The Emergency Coordination Center has sent the last known coordinate of the plane to the Junta’s rescue helicopter, which has coordinated the operational search efforts in the area. In addition, The Civil Guard has sent a helicopterand the SAR one of its helicopters and activates an air resources coordination plane.
During the search carried out in the area, the Civil Guard has located the crashed plane in a mountain area in the municipality of Cimanes del Tejar, in Lion.
At the scene, emergency agencies have confirmed the death of its occupantswhose data is unknown at the moment. The Civil Guard has taken charge of the corresponding procedures.