Search for missing pilot on Su-30MK2 intensified
Thursday, 12:02, 16/06/2016
VOV.VN - Five aircraft, 102 vessels, special vehicles, diving equipment, dozens of automobiles along with 1,500 rescuers joined the search for a missing pilot on jet fighter Su-30MK2 that went missing during a training session off the coast of the central province of Nghe An on June 14.
Earlier, Major Nguyen Huu Cuong, a pilot on Su-30MK2 was saved at 5 am of June 15.
Cuong, who is also the head of the SU30 fighter squadron under Division 371’s Regiment 923 of the Air Defence – Air Force Service, was in stable condition when he was found by fisherman Pham Van Le from the neighbouring province of Ha Tinh.