They found a missing helicopter in Italy: the dead are seven

A shocking tragedy shook northern Italy, where a helicopter that had been missing for two days was found shipwrecked together with the corpses of the seven passengers who has traveled there.

The discovery took place this Saturday morning, as part of a mopping up operation in the Modena area. Precisely, it was in the area of ​​the Monte Cunsanear the place where the air vehicle had previously given its last locate signal disappear Thursday.

After more than 30 hours of unsuccessful research, a mountaineer on an excursion called the authorities to alert the presence of remains of what he believed to be an airplane. These were close to where he was climbing.

From this information, it was that the rescue team went to the scene and found the wrecked helicopter in a difficult-to-access valley covered with trees.

When they finally managed to get off, they began the search for the survivors, which had a sad conclusion: the seven passengers traveling aboard the vehicle were found dead.

At first, the personnel operating on the spot found five bodies and reported that the other two missing people were missing. However, they were found dead hours later.

As it turned out, the pilot was the only Italian on board (a native of the city of Padua), while the other travelers, businessmen, were four Turks and two Lebanese who would participate in a technology event in Treviso, where they would they were going. .

In this sense, the first investigations indicate that the helicopter crashed into the Lama stream, 1,922 meters high, two kilometers from the Segheria refuge. An area which, as detailed, is almost inaccessible.

As it was established, the accident would have occurred in the midst of a strong stormwhereby the pilot lost control of the ship and crashed, falling into the void.

Similarly, experts are still working to determine why the helicopter’s emergency locator transmitter failed – a kind of black box that automatically broadcasts a radio signal in the event of an impact that allows the aircraft to be located. .

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