flyboy2
27th May 2006, 05:05
26/05/2006 16:13 - (SA)
Rome - A small private plane carrying Swiss tourists crashed and burst into flames during take off in the countryside near Ragusa, Sicily, on Friday.
All three people on board were killed, said Sicilian fire and police officials.
Ragusa police official Giovanna Cassarino said the plane had just taken off from an airstrip near a farm in southeast Sicily. The victims had been staying at the farm.
Italy's civil aviation agency Enac said the plane was heading to the small Sicilian island of Pantelleria and was part of a group of four aircraft, all Swiss-registered, on a tourist trip to Sicily.
According to an initial Enac reconstruction of the accident, the plane "had requested to make a low flight, but, for reasons still unclear, it crashed to the ground".
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1940212,00.html
Rome - A small private plane carrying Swiss tourists crashed and burst into flames during take off in the countryside near Ragusa, Sicily, on Friday.
All three people on board were killed, said Sicilian fire and police officials.
Ragusa police official Giovanna Cassarino said the plane had just taken off from an airstrip near a farm in southeast Sicily. The victims had been staying at the farm.
Italy's civil aviation agency Enac said the plane was heading to the small Sicilian island of Pantelleria and was part of a group of four aircraft, all Swiss-registered, on a tourist trip to Sicily.
According to an initial Enac reconstruction of the accident, the plane "had requested to make a low flight, but, for reasons still unclear, it crashed to the ground".
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1940212,00.html