Clash between planes in Rome Pilots died to avoid massacre

Two planes collided near Guidonia Montecelio, a town on the outskirts of Rome

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The two aircraft crashed on a meadow not far from via Longarina and the pilots who were on board died in the crash.

On the spot police, carabinieri and 118 personnel. The accident, according to initial information, would have involved two vintage military aircraft.

After the fight, one of the two ended up in a meadow, the other on a road.

The two aircraft belonged to the 60th Wing of the Italian Air Force

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According to what has been learned, one of the two aircraft, used for training, crashed on a car parked a short distance from some houses while the other vehicle fell on a field.

No other injuries are reported.

"The pilot did something to avoid the buildings, he dodged them.

In my opinion, a maneuver to pardon us, because he could have taken the buildings".

This is what the eyewitnesses tell of the accident between two ultralight aircraft that cost the lives of Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Cipriano and Major Marco Maneghello, the two men belonging to the 60th Wing of the Air Force.

"Although the necessary investigations are underway, from the first reconstructions it is reasonable to assume that the aircraft that crashed on the street of a town was directed there by the pilot to cause the least possible damage to things and people, so much so that the damage was very limited. Otherwise

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This was stated in a note by the prosecutor of Tivoli, Francesco Menditto in relation to the Guidonia accident.

The collision between the two planes which crashed in Guidonia "occurred in the phase preceding the landing"

and the two vehicles were engaged "in a training activity which involved a total of four aircraft. The hypothesis for now is the collision in flight which determined the crash of the two planes but the investigation will ascertain the causes".

So the air force general Silvano Frigerio about the accident involving two air force planes near Rome in which two pilots died.

In the late morning, informs the Air Force,

would have collided, for causes not known at the moment, crashing to ground in an area near the Guidonia military airport. Unfortunately, the two pilots died on impact. The rescue teams immediately intervened on the spot. There would be no other people involved".