Major Milan Gujanica spoke after the plane crash near Loznica

Milan Gujanica, Photo: Printscreen

The aircraft was fully inspected in accordance with procedures immediately prior to takeoff., when it is determined that you are ready and correct to perform the task.

On the occasion of the military plane crash, a spokesman for the Serbian Defense Ministry and the Serbian Army said that he and Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin visited the site of the plane crash today and spoke with eyewitnesses.

– During the execution of the regular flight task, this morning around 9 o’clock In the vicinity of the village of Brasina, near Mali Zvornik, a MiG-21 aircraft of the Serbian Air Force and Air Defense of the Serbian Army crashed.

On that occasion, pilots Major Dejan Krsnik and Captain First Class Zvonko Vasiljevic of the 101st Fighter Squadron of the Serbian Air Force were killed, said today the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense and the Serbian Army, Major Milan Gujanica in the town of Brasina.

He noted that the Minister of Defense, Aleksandar Vulin, the Chief of the General Staff, General Milan Mojsilovic, the Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense, Major General Dusko Zarkovic, and the Commander of the 204 Air Brigade, Colonel Brane Krnjajic, visited the crash site today and spoke with eyewitnesses.

– The aircraft was fully inspected in accordance with procedures immediately prior to takeoff, when it was determined that it was ready and correct to perform the task. The Chief of the General Staff, General Milan Mojsilovic, and the Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense, Major General Dusko Zarkovic, formed a commission to investigate the emergency, that is, a commission of experts that will deal with the causes of the accident. MiG-21, said Major Gujanica and added that “the members of the Serbian Defense Ministry and Army mourn the dead colleagues with deep pain and extend their sincerest condolences to their families.”