Originally Posted by
alfaman
Not sure of the relevance: as I understand it, the team were not displaying, they were departing to display elsewhere. There are plenty of runways with roads adjacent to them in North America, as I recall.
That is correct alfaman, they were taking off from Turin (where they are temporarily based due to performances scheduled for today and tomorrow) and were meant to conduct a flyover in Vercelli, a nearby city.
Both events have been cancelled.