The maneuvers of a passenger plane on Sunday, about the area of Montijo, in Greater Lisbon, warned some county residents, who questioned whether the plane was in trouble. The Portuguese Air Force confirmed the PUBLIC the Boeing 767 estave to conduct tests to pilots and that this is standard procedure.
The number of overflights of the Boeing 767 EuroAtlantic Airways on Montijo, where is located the Air Base No. 6, took several people to question social networks what was happening. Some videos show a plane maneuvers to be directed to the air base in the area and then return to close to residential areas, in a circle. Wing maneuvers after 09h have begun and ended after about three hours. The Boeing eventually land at Portela airport near the 13h.
Paul Collier major, the Public Relations office of the Air Force, confirmed to the PUBLIC the plane belongs to a civil airline and would be conducting “training by nearby instruments”, during which the riders make several maneuvers like approach to the runway in this case to the Air Base No. 6. The low altitude at which the unit has flown is “safe “according to the official, and it happens to avoid any interference with scheduled flights near the region.
The mining major stresses that these exercises are” normal and happen regularly between once or twice a month, “and serve for” qualification or requalification of pilots “of civil aviation. The completion of the tests requires a request from the Portuguese Air Force, as usually arise with the support of the areas closest airport bases in this case Portela.
Questioned about the alarm caused among the population of Montijo – flown daily by Air Force planes – , the official reaffirmed the “regularity” of the exercises. “Only if you can explain the distraction of people who did not realize similar situations in the past,” he said.
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