SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Aug. 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The 80-year-old man, a resident of Güímar and who was arrested for throwing a stone at a firefighting service helicopter and rendering it inoperative, testified this Wednesday before the Court of First Instance and Instruction Number 1 of Güímar that ordered his commissioning. released, sources from the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) report.
The octogenarian has the obligation to appear before the court when required and is under investigation for an alleged crime against air safety.
He was detained by the Civil Guard after throwing a stone at a helicopter from the Forestry Brigade of the Cabildo de Tenerife when it was preparing to load water into a tank he owned and as part of the work to extinguish the fire that is still active on the island.
The stone struck a blade of the aircraft’s main rotor in such a way that the pilot decided to leave the area for safety reasons and go to Los Rodeos Airport (North Tenerife) to assess the damage caused.