The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has launched a postage stamp in memory of the SMURD plane crew of Romania’s Iasi that died in Haragas village of Cantemir district in Moldova while on a mission a year ago, IPN reports.
In a press release, the Ministry says the postage stamp contains the portraits of the crew members with a SMURD helicopter in the background. The stamp will be put into circulation by the post office of Haragas. This was issued in a number of 100,000 copies and has a nominal value of 9.5 lei.
The postage stamp will be launched on the occasion of the unveiling of a memorial complex erected at the place of the plane crash on June 4. The monument symbolizes homage rendered to those who save people’s lives with courage, devotion and sacrifice.
On June 2, 2016, a SMURD helicopter with four crew members on board crashed near Haragas, Cantemir. As a result, the pilot, copilot, doctor and medical assistant, all Romanian citizens, died. The team was heading for Cahul to take a patient. The then President of Moldova Nicolae Timofti awarded the Order of the Republic to them posthumously.
