Air firefighting safety ‘should be top priority’

Safety in aerial firefighting missions should be the top priority and continuously improved, aviation expert Chrysanthos Hadjichrysanthou said following a recent firefighting helicopter accident in Greece in which two people were killed.

Hadjichrysanthou, chairman of the Flight Safety Foundation Mediterranean (FSF-MED), whose slogan is “safety is a shared value”, said it was too early to determine exactly what had happened in Greece, as the investigation was still under way....