The helicopter missing from this morning was found between San Severo and Apricena.
This was announced by the vice president of the Puglia Region Raffaele Piemontese.
The seven people on board would all have died.
The area of the discovery is Castelpagano di Apricena, in a rural area.
There is
a family of Slovenian tourists
, with a 13-year-old daughter (and not two children as it was first learned) among the people aboard the crashed helicopter.
One of the victims is in fact
Boštjan Rigler
, 54, technical director of the main Slovenian commercial TV, Pro Plus srl, which has two channels Pop TV and Kanal A. The Rigler family was spending their holidays in Puglia.
On board also Maurizio De Girolamo, 64,
a 118-year-old doctor
who was returning home after his shift at Tremiti, and the pilots Luigi Ippolito and Andrea Nardelli.
These are the names of Slovenian tourists: Bostjan Rigler, 54;
Jon Rigler of 44;
MatejaCurk Rigler, of 44;
and little Liza Rigler, aged 13.
"The doctor had just finished his work shift and to return home he decided to take the helicopter instead of the ship due to adverse marine weather conditions. A thick fog has fallen here" - said the mayor of the archipelago. off the Gargano Peppino Calabrese -.
Our community is in shock.
This has never happened before in 30 years of service, "he concluded.
The president of the Region,
Michele Emiliano
, decided to return to Puglia from Rome, where he was participating in the procession for peace, after learning of the tragedy in Foggiano, where a helicopter crashed.
"Since the helicopter's disappearance, Emiliano has remained in constant contact with the prefect of Foggia, Maurizio Valiante, and with the vice president of the Region, Raffaele Piemontese, to follow the search operations. As soon as he heard the news of the discovery, Emiliano ha left the procession to return to Puglia, to Foggia ", communicates the Region.
Fnomceo: sacrifice of a doctor, shortages in the NHS
"Another death at work, this time of a 118 colleague returning home at the end of the shift. We are close to the family of Dr. Maurizio De Girolamo, who, a victim of this so absurd tragedy , he paid for his self-denial with his life ".
Thus the president of FNOMCeO, the national Federation of the Orders of Physicians, Surgeons and Dentists, Filippo Anelli.
"Our colleague - continues Anelli - has sacrificed his life to bring the assistance of the National Health Service to the small islands, frontier places where it is more difficult to ensure health services. We honor him, and we dedicate our commitment because doctors must never pay for organizational, staffing or system deficiencies with their lives ".
Balzanelli (118): after the death of his colleague, new safety regulations
"We suffer, once again, the dramatic loss of a colleague. A tragic death on the way. Maurizio got off the night shift and returned home, together with a family and the pilot. The pain of yet another very serious loss of a doctor. of 118, strictly correlated to the dynamics of the service, lead to intensify with the utmost urgency - at the national regulatory level - the safety authorization parameters for the transport of health workers and passengers on board helicopters. of the Italian 118 System Society ": this was said by Mario Balzanelli, national president of SIS118 (the Italian Society of the 118 system) after the helicopter accident that saw a doctor among the victims.
