The F16 fighter jet pilot, who suffered serious injuries on Thursday when his aircraft collided with another jet during a training exercise south of Crete, was in critical condition yesterday but doctors said they believed he would pull through.
Iosif Anastasakis, 35, was fortunately stable after undergoing a third operation in a row, doctors said. Anastasios Balatsoukas, the 33-year-old pilot of the second plane, who was killed instantly in the collision, is to be buried today in his hometown of Arta, northwestern Greece. Anastasakis’s co-pilot, 25-year-old Pavlos Votzakis, was being treated for minor injuries in a military hospital in Athens yesterday.
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