A light aircraft crashed in the Fossa area, near the Preturo airport for unknown causes and the two occupants died.
Police and 118 were on site. The ultralight aircraft crashed near the Fossa purification plant, in the L'Aquila Est area, not far from a landing strip.
Corrado Mancinelli, a 70-year-old from L'Aquila, a well-known jeweler in the city, who piloted the vehicle, and a 64-year-old woman, the passenger, Maria Rita Vietri, are the two dead people.