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Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the Elefsina Air Base where firefighting aircraft of the 383rd Special Operations and Aerial Fire Fighting Squadron and the 355th Tactical Transport Squadron are based.

What the prime minister said

“I want to say a very big “thank you”. I know how difficult what you are doing, I would say especially for the CL-215 operators, I have a full sense of what it means to fly airplanes that are quite stressed. And of course I also know how much work is done by the support technicians to keep the aircraft in the air.

For our part, we have done everything we can to bring the new Canadair 515 as early as possible. We have signed the relevant contract. We took the lead in having a large order from Europe, so that the production line could be moved forward. Because everyone who complains that we don’t have them sooner, they simply didn’t know that these planes are not in production and there has to be a big order to get them in front.

However, we know that for the next few years – certainly for the next three years – we will have to make do with what we have. And I want you to know how much the whole society appreciates what you are doing in extremely difficult and adverse circumstances.

I’ve said it many times, we’re always trying to get better. We don’t expect the solution to just come out of thin air. Very important work needs to be done in the area of ​​prevention. I think we have laid some important first foundations in this direction.

To understand that this is a total effort in a time of great climate crisis which I think we are all experiencing. We must constantly become better. And from any failure of ours or from any fire that escapes, always look to learn what we can do better.

Of course, what I do not want in any case is in the context of a political confrontation to discredit all the work of the state apparatus. The pilots themselves, the firefighters themselves, the volunteers themselves have done this work. So, we learn our lessons from every fire that escapes, especially, I would say, for the very difficult zones in which you also practically cannot attempt, which concern the contact of the forest with the urban fabric”, said the Prime Minister in conversation with firefighting aircraft pilots.

Mitsotakis in the Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

THE Kyriakos Mitsotakisaccompanied by General Dimitrios Houpis, Chief of the General Directorate of Civil Aviation, and General Dimitrios Houpis, Chief of General Directorate of Civil Aviation, Vice Admiral Dimosthenis Grigoriadis, was informed about the missions of the Canadair CL-215 and CL-415 firefighting aircraft that contribute to the demanding task of extinguishing the fires, while he also visited the Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, where talk to the technicians who maintain the aircraft around the clock to efficiently respond to their missions.

According to iefimerida, the Prime Ministers also spoke with the American pilots of the Erickson helicopters used in aerial firefighting operations, as well as the Italian pilots of the Canadair firefighting aircraft and the French pilots of the Super Puma helicopter who have come to Greece through the European Civil Protection Mechanism ( rescEU) to help tackle forest fires.

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