Helicopter down near Tuscany

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Helicopter down near Tuscany

#1 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Jun 11, 2022 1:36 pm

Five people have been killed and two are still missing after a helicopter crashed near Tuscany.

Eugenio Giani, the governor of the region in central Italy, said the helicopter crashed in a mountain area at the border between Tuscany and Emilia Romagna on Thursday.

The bodies of the five dead were found two days later on Saturday.

The helicopter took off from Lucca in Tuscany on Thursday and was due to make the hour-long journey to the northern city of Treviso when it disappeared from radar screens after hitting bad weather above a hilly, wooded area.

Seven people were aboard the helicopter, including four Turkish businessmen working for Eczacibasi Consumer Products, a subsidiary of the major Turkish industrial group Eczacibasi .

They had been attending a paper technologies fair in Italy, the company said in a statement.

According to Lebanese state news agency NNA, the other two passengers were Lebanese.
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Re: Helicopter down near Tuscany

#2 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sat Jun 11, 2022 5:05 pm

Seven killed in helicopter crash in Italy’s Monte Cusna

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/11/europe/i ... index.html

The bodies of seven people were found on Saturday, two days after a helicopter crashed in northern Italy.

Five bodies were initially found, according to the National Alpine Cliff and Cave Rescue Corps (CNSAS), but the bodies of two others on board were found later on Saturday.

“The helicopter, which had been missing since Thursday 9 June, had taken off from the Lucca airport with seven occupants and was found today, on Mount Cusna, completely destroyed,” the agency added.

The remains were found on Monte Cusna, in the Apennines in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna, a few kilometers from Tuscany.


After 3 p.m. local time (9 a.m. ET), CNSAS tweeted that unfortunately no survivors were found.

The victims are the pilot from the Veneto region and six passengers, four of Turkish nationality and two of Lebanese nationality, who were on a business trip to Italy. The official confirmation was given by the prefecture of Modena, CNN’s affiliate SkyTg24 reported Saturday.

The helicopter appeared to have crashed on the bed of a stream, the Lama, at the Passo degli Scaloni, 1,922 meters above sea level, SkyTg24 reported.

Italy’s National Flight Safety Agency said Saturday it had opened an investigation and sent an investigator to the scene of the accident involving the A119 Koala helicopter, the agency said.

The rescue operations were carried out by CNSAS, the Italian fire brigade and the Italian police and personnel of the Air Force.

“We got some coordinates, we went to the place and found everything burned. The helicopter is inside a valley, near a stream, we are trying to bring all the rescue teams to then reach the area on foot, because it is difficult to get there with the winch,” a soldier said earlier on Saturday, in a video posted on the Italian Air Force’s verified Twitter profile.

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