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Piper Crash and Rescue in Tenerife

What: Piper PA-28 owned by Los Rodeos Aerotec flying club en route from Tenerife airport.
Where: Crash in the area of La Esperanza in the town of La Laguna in Tenerife ( Mountain of Joco in the municipality of La Orotava Tenerife)
When: 1352 hours (time when control tower lost contact with the plane.
Who: Emergency Intervention Group (GIES) identified the2 wounded men and a woman, all injured,who were taken to hospitals.

Why: Los Rodeos control tower reported the crash. One man and a woman were rescued by helicopters from the Emergency Intervention Group. One was rescued by Air Rescue (SAR). A man who suffered leg contusions and the woman who suffered pneumothorax and a serious rib injury and were taken to University Hospital Canaria. The pilot suffered multiple serious undisclosed injuries and was transferred to the University Hospital of Our Lady of La Candelaria. Rescue efforts were hampered by fog.

Any corrections on the details of this crash are welcome, as the original text was in Spanish.

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