The two military was identified of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) that lost the Vidan the plane crash that occurred on Friday, October 3, in the immediate vicinity of the “Mariscal Sucre” air base of Maracay, Aragua state.
This is the greatest Noglys Carolina García Rondón and the corvette lieutenant Carlos Alfonzo Castillo Sánchez, who was receiving flight instruction in a primary coach helicopter.
The greatest Noglys Carolina García Rondón, a figure in Fanb’s pilot formation, He died while fulfilling instructional work aboard the Helicopter TH-480b. The officer belonged to the Air Training Group No. 19, a unit attached to the Air Training Center (CEA).
The accident ended an outstanding race, because the largest Garcia, graduated in 2009, had reached in 2022 the notable merit of becoming The first woman to classify as a flight instructor at the ESTROM TH-480B aircraft. This helicopter is fundamental for the training of future rotary wings pilots in the direction of Operational Loving of Bolivarian Military Aviation (AMB).
Next to her, the corvette lieutenant Carlos Alfonzo Castillo Sánchez, a pilot student, lost his life. The incident occurred while Major García Rondón taught the training aboard this essential team for the formation of the new FANB aviators.
Rescue teams, firefighters and military authorities immediately mobilized the impact site in where they performed the recovery work of the bodies. After the accident, Nicolás Maduro, immediately ordered the relevant inquiries to determine the possible causes.
For his part, the Minister for Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, expressed in a statement the regret of the FANB: “We enmemns us and saddens the irreparable loss of these valuable military professionals who, in faithful fulfillment of their duty, offered their lives in acts of the service.”
