Aero L-29 Delfín belonging to Buenos Aires businessman Alberto Pol crashes at Villa Cañas in Argentina on November 12th 2023 killing both occupants

Fatal plane crash in Villa Cañás: two dead when a plane performing acrobatics crashed at an exhibition in Santa Fe

 Aero L-29, icon of the Cold War, ended its campaign in Villa Cañás

The plane crashed this Sunday afternoon at the Villa Cañás air festival, which cost the lives of the pilot and co-pilot – one from the Buenos Aires town of Salto and an expert in aerial acrobatics, and another from Venada – while they were performing an exhibition, a The Aero L-29 jet was well known in Esmeralda del Sur, where it had participated in air festivals, as well as other incursions during training flights for local pilots.

Aero L-29 crashed in Villa Cañás.

Its unmistakable image, gray with bright red and the number 37 on the sides, will forever be associated with a tragic afternoon for its two young crew members, while in the next few hours the official investigation into the causes of the incident will begin. It ended with the plane crashing and burning in a field in Cana.

In 2018, the aircraft owned by Carlos Casares’ pilot, Alberto Pol – he was not piloting on this occasion – had been one of the attractions of the Venado Vuela festival, organized by the Aero Club at the “Tomas B. Kenny” municipal aerodrome in Venada.

It is a jet aircraft (created for military training purposes for air combat) manufactured in Czechoslovakia for the Warsaw Pact nations -during the Cold War period-, and which replaced the Mig 15 and Mig 17 F. of Russian origin.

“The Soviet Air Force bought 3,500 units from the Czech Aero Vodochody factory and flew them from 1966 to 1977,” Pol told this chronicler. “When they are no longer used as trainers, they become part of various air forces and, for example, the L-29s were used in the Egyptian bombing of Israel (Yon Kippur) and were later used by Saddam Hussein, who had 100 units, to drop chemical bombs on the Kurds in Afghanistan. They then became obsolete and fell into private hands. I estimate that there will be about 50 L-29 aircraft left in the world and this is the only one in South America. I bought it in California, United States, and moved it to Uruguay, until I got permission from the Argentine Air Force to register it as experimental,” said the owner of the Russian Antonov biplane, another great attraction of that Venado Vuela at the airfield. municipal.

“They are airplanes with a very high operating cost, since they consume 800 liters of fuel per hour and develop a maximum speed of 800 km/h,” described Alberto Pol, highlighting that “it is very fun to fly the jet and we really enjoyed these shows.” .

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