Mirage 2000

Greece has announced a major overhaul of the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) which essentially involves the decommissioning and sale of F-16 and Mirage 2000 fighter jets. Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias highlighted the need for the Air Force to be...

The flight recorder or "black box" from the fallen Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet, which crashed into the sea nine miles northeast of the Aegean island of Skyros, has been located and recovered, Hellenic Air Force sources reported on Tuesday. The...

The Greek Armed Forces are observing three days of mourning for Giorgos Baltadoros whose fighter jet crashed northeast of the island of Skyros on Thursday. By order of Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, who announced the tragic loss yesterday, flags will...

The remains of Giorgos Baltadoros, the Greek pilot of the Mirage 2000-5 jet that crashed into the Aegean on Thursday, were found by a local fisherman off the coast of Skyros island on Friday. The Mayor of Skyros, Miltos Hadjigiannakis,...

The Greek Ministry of Defense has released the details of the pilot killed when his Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet crashed northeast of the island of Skyros on Thursday. He was 34-year-old Giorgos Baltadoros, reportedly a father of three, who was...

Greek rescue teams have found the body of the pilot of a Mirage-2000 Hellenic Air Force jet which crashed into the Aegean Sea on Thursday after confronting Turkish planes. The body plus the wreckage of the state-of-the-art plane were located...

The video showing the rescue of the fighter pilot from the sea has been made public by the Aviation General Staff. A few minutes after ejecting from the Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft, the 28-year-old pilot was found in the...

A Greek Air Force Mirage 2000 fell in the area of Skopelos island during an exercise at Monday noon; the pilot is safe in hospital. The accident occurred at 12:18 pm during a training exercise involving two Mirage 2000 fighter...