18 minutes agoSeven people are dead after the crash in Italy
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Rescue teams have found the bodies of seven people killed in a helicopter crash in Italy, local authorities said Saturday, two days after the plane disappeared from radar screens. According to foreign media, the helicopter was launched Thursday from Luca to Toscan and heading toward the northern city of Traviso [...]
According to foreign media, the helicopter was launched Thursday from Lucka to Toscan and headed toward the northern city of Traviso when it lost in bad weather in a remote area.
The rescue teams have found seven helicopter passengers, four of the Turks and two of the Lebanese nationals on a work trip to Italy dead. As well as Italian pilot”, the mayor's office in the town of Modaena said.
The helicopter was found in a mountainous area on the border between Tuscana and the Emilia Romagna region, the statement said.
Prosecutors have surrounded the area under investigation of the event.
We took the coordinates, went to the site and found everything burned. The helicopter is essentially inside a valley, near a stream”, said a savior in a video posted in the Italian Air Force account on Twitter.
Turkish businessmen worked for Eczacibasi Consumer Productions, a subsidiary of the large Turkish industrial group Eczacibasi (ECZYT.IS). They had participated in a paper technology fair in Italy, the company said in a statement.
The helicopter was a Koala AW119 produced by the defence group Leonardo (LDOF.MI), a person close to the issue told Reuters.
ANSA news agency reportedly owned by the transportation and aeronautic maintenance company Avio Helicopters, based in Thiene, northern Italy.
