The bodies of the four members of a helicopter of the SMURD emergency rescue provider that crashed in Moldova on a rescue mission reached Romania on Friday on the way to Iasi.
The coffins of doctor Mihaela Dumea, nurse Gabriel Sandu and Commodore Doru Gavril will be displayed at the St, Spiridon Church of Iasi, while the coffin with the fourth body, of copilot Voicu Socae, will be hauled to Bacau.
Sandu, 40, was one of Romania's most experienced emergency care nurses, having worked with SMURD since 2005.
Primary care physician Dumea had been working with SMURD Iasi for five years while teaching emergency medicine as lecturer to students.
The EC 135 helicopter that went down on Thursday in Moldova had been acquired by the Romanian Health Ministry in 2014 for 5 million euros. It was with SMURD since 2014, having undergone a last inspection in 2016.
Pilot Doru Gavril, 53, had a helicopter flight experience of more than 4,000 hours. He was the commander of the Iasi Special Aviation Unit.
Co-pilot Socae, 36, had an experience of more than 1,480 flight hours.
This was the second tragedy to have stricken SMURD Iasi over the past 10 years. In January 2006, two pilots and two medical staff were killed as a SMURD Iasi helicopter carrying them aboard crashed near the airport. Their Eurocopter EC 135 crashed 10 minutes into the flight, about one and a half kilometres away from the control tower, close to a gendarmerie unit.
Comentează