{"id":22952,"date":"2022-07-17T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=22952"},"modified":"2022-07-25T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T07:35:06","slug":"fireplane-pilot-dies-in-portugal-wildfires-during-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/17\/fireplane-pilot-dies-in-portugal-wildfires-during-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireplane pilot dies in Portugal wildfires, during operation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>The civil defence said that a plane that was fighting forest fires in northern Portugal crashed on Friday, killing its pilot.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/reuters-portugal-firefighting-wildfires-16579402113x2-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Fireplane pilot dies in Portugal wildfires, during operation\" class=\"wp-image-22956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/reuters-portugal-firefighting-wildfires-16579402113x2-2.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/reuters-portugal-firefighting-wildfires-16579402113x2-2-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The single-engine airtanker, which crashed to its death while attempting to put out fires in the Braganca region near Vila Nova de Foz Coa, was empty at the time<\/em><\/strong>, it was stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong><em> &#8220;It is with profound dismay that I have learned of the loss of the pilot piloting the jet that crashed while putting out a fire.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><cite>Prime Minister Antonio Costa posted on Twitter<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">Foi com grande consterna\u00e7\u00e3o que tomei conhecimento do falecimento do piloto que operava uma aeronave que caiu esta tarde no combate ao inc\u00eandio em Torre de Moncorvo.<br>Endere\u00e7o as mais sentidas condol\u00eancias \u00e0 fam\u00edlia e amigos.<\/p>&mdash; Ant\u00f3nio Costa (@antoniocostapm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antoniocostapm\/status\/1548041511173951489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Portugal, where temperatures on Thursday reached a record-high for July of 47 Celsius (116 Fahrenheit) before a minor drop the following day, firefighters have been combating fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Friday night, 900 firemen were still putting out about 10 flames across the nation, according to the civil defence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past week, a heatwave has made most of southwestern Europe swelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/62d142136e900.image_.jpg\" alt=\"Fireplane pilot dies in Portugal wildfires, during operation\" class=\"wp-image-22954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/62d142136e900.image_.jpg 750w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/62d142136e900.image_-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/62d142136e900.image_-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A firefighting helicopter carrying four crew members crashed into the water off the coast of Greece on Thursday, killing two people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also Read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/17\/indigo-appoints-m-damodaran-as-non-independent-non-executive-director\/\">IndiGo appoints M Damodaran as non-independent non-executive director<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/17\/indigo-sharjah-hyderabad-flight-makes-emergency-landing-in-karachi-due-to-technical-issue\/\">IndiGo Sharjah-Hyderabad flight makes emergency landing in Karachi due to technical snag<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join our telegram group for latest Aviation Updates:-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/aviationa2z\">https:\/\/t.me\/aviationa2z<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The civil defence said that a plane that was fighting forest fires in northern Portugal crashed on Friday, killing its pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761,1],"tags":[934,5951,6388,6563,1968,6565,6562],"class_list":{"0":"post-22952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"tag-fire","10":"tag-fire-on-plane","11":"tag-firefighters","12":"tag-fireplane","13":"tag-latest-airports-news","14":"tag-portugal-wildfire","15":"tag-wildfires"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22957,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952\/revisions\/22957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}