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Italian AF Tornado crash (X2) following mid-air?

Old 20th Aug 2014, 15:23
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Very sad to hear.


In one of the photos, the crash site and fires is just past some high tension wires that cross the valley.
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Old 20th Aug 2014, 16:53
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In one of the photos, the crash site and fires is just past some high tension wires that cross the valley.
If so, not the first and certainly not the last. What a bugger.

RIP etc. What else can one say?
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Old 20th Aug 2014, 19:18
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500n,

In that photo the fireball is possibly about 1000ft above the nearest hilltops. Now that would need some very tall pylons to support wires, given the nature of the terrain in that part of the country (which can be seen in the photo).
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Old 20th Aug 2014, 19:27
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I was passing comment, but not wanting to get into speculation that they
hit them but more that they might have risen up to avoid them ???

Anyway, hope some good news comes out.
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My Italian is terrible, but I infer from that news article and my fractured understanding of the prose that all four have been lost.

RIP, four of our comrades in arms.
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Old 25th Aug 2014, 20:32
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The body of the last victim (the lady pilot) was found on Sunday. Two inquiries have been instigated; one military, one civil. Both ADRs have been recovered. RIP
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RIP, my thoughts are with family and friends
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Has anyone come across any reports as to the cause of this collision? I know that they did not have CWS.

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No official conclusions yet.
According to a mainstream newspaper, one of them should have been at 10000 ft, instead of 1000. Two planes, two different missions.

Scontro Tornado, «l’aereo fuori posto era quello di Mariangela Valentini» - Corriere.it

Tornado's collision, Mariangela Valentini's plane was in the wrong place.
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