Magda Panoutsopoulou
08 August 2021•Update: 09 August 2021
ATHENS
A firefighting plane crashed on the Greek island of Zakynthos on Sunday while it was responding to a fire there, authorities said.
The Fire Service said the pilot of the airplane, picked up by another firefighting aircraft on the island of Ionian, survived.
The aircraft was responding to a small-scale fire in the Lagopodo-Macherado area.
Greece has been fighting wildfires for six days with thousands of people have been evacuated so far.
