The F-16 fighter (No. 6672) piloted by the Taiwan Air Force "colon" pilot Jiang Zhengzhi took off from Hualien at 6:5 p.m. on the 17th for scheduled night flight training. It lost contact 2 minutes after takeoff and is still searching.
Yan Defa
Taiwan’s “Military News Agency” reported in the afternoon that Yan Defa was very concerned about the progress of the search and rescue of fighter aircraft. The "Search and Rescue Response Center" of the Air Force Five Wing listened to the project search and rescue report, grasped the current search and rescue progress, and provided specific work instructions. On behalf of the "Commander of the Armed Forces" Tsai Ing-wen, thanked everyone for their hard work and efforts.
"Junwen News Agency" pointed out that after the fighter plane was lost, the Taiwan military integrated the military, civilian and "government" resources to launch the first stage search and rescue mission. With the joint efforts of everyone, yesterday it was about 1 nautical mile northeast of the disappearance of the light spot ( Hualien Airport 060 (azimuth 9 miles), at a depth of about 1000 meters, exactly detected the aircraft crash residual recorder CSFDR (black box) signal (37.5kHz); at the same time in the nearby waters, multiple underwater metal reactions were found, allowing search, The positioning task has important findings. Z1z
Yan Defa said that since the incident, the Taiwan military has established a search and rescue response center to collect various information, and continuously integrate the resources of the "three services", civilians, and science and technology departments. Now they have mastered the exact position under water; After the sonar, the listening device, the control of the calibration position, the use of the underwater camera, etc., are confirmed as the target object, although the weather factors are unpredictable, we still need to do our best to shorten the salvage operation time and retrieve the wreck as soon as possible. It is used to explore the overall cause and restore the truth of the accident.
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