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A Hungarian-made small plane crashed in the USA – VIDEO
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The small aircraft disappeared on Saturday evening in the United States and was only found on Sunday morning. Unfortunately, its pilot did not survive the accident.
On Saturday, a small Magnus Fusion 212 was reported missing near Deckers in Colorado.
The single-engine sports plane was manufactured by the Hungarian Magnus Aircraft Zrt. –
the same company which made a deal in January with the commander-in-chief of the Nigerian Air Force to sell them propeller planes manufactured by the aircraft factory in Pécs, for civilian and surveillance purposes.
A rescue operation searched from the air for the small plane, engineered specifically for aerobatics, that crashed in a rugged area northwest of Deckers. The cause of the crash is still unknown, and the area itself is so hard to approach that crews were literally searching for a needle in a haystack.
Members of the search and rescue unit found the pilot on Sunday but could not save his life.
He was the only one on board. His name has not been made public yet, but his family was notified already.
According to CBS Denver, experts are now working on recovering the wreckage from the remote area.
As the accident happened late in the evening and the emergency responders received the alert after 8 pm, the dark posed further challenges, so the crew needed to wait until the next morning to start the search,