Savannah incident in Italy ~ wing falls off

[eightyknots]

Did anyone happen to read about this tragic incident from this Italian new site? http://www.la-cronaca.it/news/427227

 

TRANSLATION COURTESY OF GOOGLE TRANSLATE:

 

Daniela Brands

 

RODIGO (Ditch)

 

The Prosecutor of Mantova has opened an investigation, even without offenses, for the accident flight that killed two people Sunday afternoon. The task of the magistrate will determine whether one of the wings dell'ultraleggero ICP Savannah is broken - as one witness said - to a manufacturing defect or inadequate maintenance by the owner, Fulvio Small, 74, of Caronno Pertusella, one of two victims with his friend Mark's Meadow, 42, of Sevenoaks.

 

If the technical findings that the magistrate, Silvia Bertuzzi, entrust to an expert, perhaps the same Air Force, will confirm the first hypothesis, the manufacturing defect, will be the offense of manslaughter against the manufacturer and if failures are detected maintenance, which is entrusted to the owner, the investigation clearly be archived.

 

The day after the tragedy in which they have lost their lives and Marco Fulvio Small Lawn, Field Flight to capture, in which both were partners, they are all still in disbelief. To give voice to the group of club members, with about a hundred members, is the vice president Fabio Casara: "We lost two members of what everyone considers a family."

 

They tell friends and family that Fulvio, a retired businessman, married with two grown sons, Marco, insurer, married, father of two young children, had left to catch at mid-morning, direct to Caorle, where there were other friends. They landed at the airfield of the Venetian resort just before midday, then the party reached the beach. Mark's wife, Serena Munari, says she heard her husband on the phone to one and a half: it was on the beach, had a bath and a little later with Fulvio would resume the way back. At half past eight Serena, not seeing him back, tried repeatedly to call on the phone. Unanswered. Within a few minutes the police have played at the doorbell. They gave her the terrible news, trying to explain what had happened three hours earlier. Namely, that - as he told a witness - the ultralight flight over Moat Rodigo, at some point began to fall screw with a broken wing. It crashed to the ground and caught fire, trapping the bodies of two men.

 

The Savannah, manufactured by a firm of Asti, according to experts is an aircraft, aircraft aluminum, solid and secure. He explains Carlo Alberto Galeazzi, Mantua, pilot, instructor and examiner on behalf of Aeroclub Italy that "statistically the machines are no longer due to accidents. If a wing fell off, the airplane must have suffered an injury or was worn out. It's called fatigue of materials. If there is a perfect maintenance, to a certain point of failure can occur after thousands of hours of flight. In addition there is to take account of seasonal factors: people begin to fly in the summer after months of detention, is less trained and more rarefied air with the heat the machines are more difficult to maneuver. Difficult stunts that have attempted, among other things, micro-light aircraft are prohibited.

 

It is difficult to unravel, from this translation and from the reporter's writing, what really occurred.

 

It is unlikely that the family of these two men will read this, but if they do, condolences from Down Under.

 

 

[eightyknots]

Another Italian newsite, at http://www.mantova.com/ita/MPN011249.asp, said (again, via Google translate):

 

Monday, June 27, 2011 10:36 - ultralight Precipitates: Tragedy in Rodigo

 

RODIGO tragedy yesterday afternoon at 17 in air campaigns Moat, near Rodigo. An ultralight aircraft with two people on board has crashed in a field about a mile from the town. The pilot and passenger were killed. They called Mark Lawn, 42 years, in the province of Varese Caronno Pertusella and Fulvio Small, 74 years of Sevenoaks, in the province of Monza was probably driving the "Savannah", being the owner. The ultra-light had left the airfield of Caorle, near Venice, and was directed to gather, in Milan, where he was taken off in the morning. The incident is under reconstruction, however, according to some witnesses to the small plane would suddenly bent and then broken wing. At that point the plane crashed in a field screw crashed and caught fire.

 

In place of 118 rescuers and firefighters found the charred bodies of two men. The wreckage of the plane was hijacked and rearranged the bodies at the morgue of the Hospital of Mantua to the judicial authorities.

 

 

[eightyknots]

Here's a third account of the incident from http://www.dedalonews.it/it/index.php/06/2011/incidente-ultraleggero-nel-mantovano-due-morti/:

 

(again, Google Translate has done the translation job)

 

Ultralight accident in Mantua, two dead

 

Savannah is an ultralight aircraft crashed Sunday afternoon near neo Rodigo, in the province of Mantua, with the death of two people on board, Marco Prato, 42, of Sevenoaks and Fulvio Small, 74, of Caronno Pertusella. The car, registered I-7856, was returning to Cogliate from Caorle, where he arrived in the morning.

 

Interestingly, there is little else to go by to explain what may have caused this tragic crash.