search teams discovered debris from the Radar missing French fighter plane discovered. Parts of the Mirage 2000D, carrying two crew members, were found in the village of Mignovillard in the East of France, said on Wednesday a source with good Connections to the operating forces. The site is therefore in the district of Jura near the Swiss border.
A Mirage 2000D of the French army. (Image: Keystone/2011)
The fighter plane was launched from the military airport of Nancy-Ochey, around a hundred kilometres southwest of Saarbrücken and later disappeared from the Radar. The authorities caused Alarm because of a possible crash. The plane was last spotted over a mountain area, close to Geneva. To give the two occupants, apparently a man and a woman, there is no contact, it was called by the Prefecture. The Mirage and therefore had no weapons on Board. The search of the people and the Jet could be due to snow and low visibility in the border region difficult.
The Mirage 2000D took off from the military airbase of Nancy-Ochey. Map: Google
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Created: 09.01.2019, at 17:21