Rome, June 12 (BNA) Today, Saturday, local authorities said that rescuers had found the bodies of seven people who were killed in a helicopter crash in Italy, two days after the plane disappeared from radar screens.
The helicopter had taken off on Thursday from Lucca in Tuscany and was heading to the northern city of Treviso when it got lost due to bad weather in a remote area, Reuters reported.
“Rescuers found the seven dead, four of the helicopter’s passengers, four Turkish nationals and two Lebanese nationals, who were on a business trip to Italy, as well as the Italian pilot,” the office of the city governor of Modena said in a statement. statement.
The statement said the helicopter was found in a mountainous area on the border between Tuscany and the Emilia-Romagna region.
Prosecutors cordoned off the area as part of the investigation into the accident.
“We got the coordinates, went to the site and found everything on fire. The helicopter is basically inside a ravine, near a stream,” one of the rescuers said in a video posted on the Italian Air Force’s Twitter account.
Turkish businessmen worked for Eczacibasi Consumer Products, a subsidiary of the major Turkish industrial group Eczacibasi. The company said in a statement that they were both attending an exhibition of paper technologies in Italy.
A person close to the matter told Reuters that the AW119 Koala was built by Leonardo’s defense team.
ANSA news agency reported that it is owned by transport and aircraft maintenance company Avio Helicopters, based in Thiene, northern Italy.
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