Today in Tripoli, relatives, friends, colleagues, the political and state leadership of the country are saying their final farewell to Lt. Col. Marios-Michael Touroutsikas.

The 29-year-old lieutenant commander died in the crash of a Phantom-F4 fighter that was performing a training flight after taking off from Andravida airport.

The President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the President of SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, were present at the funeral.

Yesterday, Wednesday (1/2) it became known that the captain of the fatal Phantom, Efstathios Tsitlakidis, is also dead.