Ponta said that Chiper was in charge with emergency interventions, while ROMATSA and STS representatives moved very slowly, resulting in a complete failure of Monday’s intervention. Under the same circumstances, the head of the General Department for Emergencies, Ion Burlui, resigned Wednesday.
A plane carrying a medical team to a transplant crashed Monday in Apuseni mountains. All seven on board, including five doctors, a nurse and two flight crew members, initially survived the landing, but two of them died later, allegedly due to a delay of medical help. Rescuers reached the injured about six hours after the crash.