2024-08-17 09:14:58
Who is Didier Berger?
Vaal prosecutor Samuel Finilz initially said the victim trapped in the plane’s cabin was a man born in 1959. Details about pilot identity on LinkedIn. According to him, the aircraft was none other than Didier Berger, known as “Helmut”, a former fighter pilot who purchased the aircraft about thirty years ago. “Dear Didier, you left the world behind the wheel of your Fouga. Welcome to the Squadron Bar,” the former Air Force general concluded in his post.
Didier Berger served in the Air Force from 1980 to 1997. Designated newspaper “Var matin”. The experienced pilot spent time in the southwest, first in Cognac, Charente, where he trained with the Fouga Magister, and then in Cazaux, Gironde, where He became a fighter pilot. In the 1990s, at the age of 60, he traveled to southeastern France, where at the end of his career he became the coach of Fouga Magister and purchased one of their equipment.
exist. The Paca regional president also wrote: “As we honor the courage of the heroes who landed in Provence, one man tragically lost his life in memory of those who fought for our freedom.”
The same tragic ending as his father
Didier Berger’s father Gérard was also a pilot but served in the navy. Bruno Clermont recalled on LinkedIn that “he died in Ajaccio on September 7, 2003 under the same circumstances, driving a Zéphyr (the maritime version of the Fouga Magister)”. “Didier was present that day and witnessed his father’s accident. »
What happened on Friday?
The Fouga Magister, a subsonic two-seat jet popular with aviation enthusiasts but without an ejection seat, was demonstrated on Friday as part of a conference that will also see demonstrations by French patrols. He sank at sea around 5pm in front of a large crowd of spectators.
Pictures posted on social media showed the device slightly misaligned, apparently losing control and crashing into the middle of the cruise ship. “Suddenly we saw the plane nosedive and all the wreckage was rising to the surface,” said Sophie Bruna, who witnessed the tragedy at the beach restaurant where she worked. “It was so cruel, we didn’t expect it. This happens.
“Someone fainted […]. People were a little shocked, and that’s normal. […] But there was no panic, they just said what happened and people understood,” explained tourist Marc-Antoine Armanini, 33.
According to the province, emergency services, coordinated by Cross Med and the Mediterranean Interregional Authority, quickly recovered the pilot’s body “and utilized the resources of the Var department fire and rescue service and the Maritime Gendarmerie”.
Where is the investigation?
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