A helicopter crashed in the mountains of Albosaggio, in the province of Sondrio.
Two people on board, it would seem a father and a 17-year-old son.
Rescuers pulled the boy consciously out of the metal sheets.
The father at the controls of the aircraft, reports 118, died despite attempts at resuscitation.
According to preliminary information, the helicopter would have failed and would have touched the high voltage wires of some pylons and then fell just above the town on the Orobie Alps.