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Bulgarian Air Force to commit aircraft for public and rescue services

Wed, Nov 18 2009 11:05 CET byNick Iliev 708 Views
Bulgarian Air Force to commit aircraft for public and rescue services

Bulgarian Air Force AS532AL Cougar

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Aircraft from the Bulgarian Air Force (BAF) will be made available for emergency situations in peace times, when required elsewhere, Dnevnik daily reported on November 18 2009.

Patients in urgent need of transport or organ transplant, evacuations, disaster relief, search and rescue missions, traffic surveillance and control and and other "emergency situations" will be delegated to available aircraft from BAF, the report says.

The Government is expected to come up with a feasible plan to enable the Health Ministry and the Interior Ministry to use military aircraft according to priority.

Both ministries are expected to come up with schemes to allow for such emergency situations within their own budget projections. These will subsequently be redirected to the Defence Ministry, Dnevnik reported.

Aircraft for transport or rescue missions may be made available from the 16th Transport Air Base – in Vrazhdebna from the 16 Transport Squadron operating C-27J, An-24, An-26, An-30, L-410, Pilatus PC-12 aircrafts, or from the 2/24 transport helicopter squadron - operating Mi-17, Eurocopter Cougar aircraft.

Branches of the BAF consist of fighter and assault squadrons, intelligence, surveillance and transportation aviation, air defence troops, radio-technical troops, communications troops, radio-technical support troops, logistics and medical troops, the latter of which may also be used in rescue operations and disaster relief.

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