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Iraq, death among Italian soldiers, a helicopter falls in storm Nasiriyah

I ran into a sandstorm the helicopter four Italians in Nasiriyah killed in the crash of their aircraft. The command of our forces engaged in Iraq has ruled out the 'possibility of a rebel attack . Four families in mourning. The 'incident, which has pushed for the 31 Italians killed in Iraq and has led to pain in four families, it happened around 23 Monday night. The four helicopters, Col. Giuseppe Lima, Captain Marco Briganti marshals and Massimiliano Biondini and Marco Cirillo, were returning to their base with the AB 412 after accompanying a colleague at the airport of Kuwait City.

's hypothesis of an attack as the main cause of the crash seems excluded.
's investigation and then will focus on the issue of anti-sand filters and training on night flights . With the same basic question, repeated for two years now: the Italian mission has adequate resources and preparation for shipment to Iraq?

"I will not make profit on this story because in this latest tragedy, I lost two friends. But our commanders know what happened, they know how many hours of training had done before this dramatic flight . The 'official brakes barely' s wrath. And 'one of the four who had refused the mission in Iraq in 2004. " These helicopters do not have adequate missile defenses - had reported - and our preparedness actions night was rushed "

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Precipitates helicopter in Como, 5 dead

An Air Force helicopter crashed , for reasons still unclear , in the early afternoon on Tuesday on the north-east of Mount Palanzone between the municipalities of rennet and Sormano, about one thousand meters. The incident resulted in five deaths : the Captain Fabio Avella, Lieutenant Luke Grana, the first sergeant Alfonso Castronuovo, Lieutenant Mario Di Carluccio, and the airman chose Angelo De Lucia. On the spot they immediately traveled to the mountain rescue teams, firefighters and the police. The area is accessible only by logging roads, passable by jeep, so that the first rescue helicopters were brought in by 118 of the Niguarda hospital in Milan and Como.

In all, the helicopter crashed on the mountain Como - an Ab-212 squadron SAR (Search and Rescue) Milan Linate - at the time of launch there were six soldiers. One of them, Sergeant Donato Barletta, had been sent down to Mount Palanzone before the accident. This allowed him to escape. The helicopter continued its training flight, then return to retrieve the man left on earth. It would have been during the approach maneuver that the accident occurred. The area where the accident occurred, where the same is October 15, 1987 ATR-42 plane crashed a party from London to Cologne (Germany) and killed 34 passengers and three crew members.

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• Corriere della Sera