According to ERT, the pilot of the single-engine plane, Stavros Tsigaloglou, was found dead. A short time earlier, the wreckage of the plane was found single-engine plane who went missing near the village Upper Amygdala, in the area of Montenegro.
The wreckage was spotted by a Super Puma helicopter of the 384th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron of the Air Force, near a mobile phone antenna.
Forces of the Police, the Fire Brigade, but also the Air Force rushed to the spot in order to locate and Pilot, the 62-year-old Stavros Tsigaloglou.
Recalled that the last sighting of the pilot's mobile phone was located in the Halki area of Larissa.
Ο Stavros Tsigaloglou, reportedly had used the single-engine plane to participate in the marathon.
The 62-year-old's daughter has posted about the incident on social media:
The chronicle
The aircraft departed from Thebes to Northern Greece and specifically the area of Drama and yesterday at about 13.30 the last call of the pilot's mobile phone was recorded, a call that was detected by the antenna of Halki.
Ο 62-year-old Stavros Tsigaloglu who is missing had contacted his family in Drama, informing them that he would return if weather conditions allowed on Monday.
Since then there has been no news about its course and yesterday at noon the competent authorities started the searches from Halki, while extending to Kalamaki and Lake Karla.
The operation involved men from the Fire Service, the Police, but also the Coast Guard, whose boats were «combing» the Aegean Sea, from Agiokampos, Skiathos and Volos.
