The Eagle falls helicopter 118 in the area of Campo Felice – The Republic

ROME – A helicopter 118 is precipitated in l’aquila, between the capital and Campo Felice. The helicopter would have fallen in the phase of recovery of an injured person on a ski slope in Happy Camp. On board six people. The helicopter would be precipitated from a height of 600 metres. Normally on this aircraft for the rescue missions are imbacarte 5 persne: two pilots, a doctor, a nurse and a man of the mountain rescue.

The helicopter went missing after having taken a skier injured on the track. The aircraft, explain the sources of the rescuers, was flying in an area with a dense blanket of fog and low clouds. You heard a crash and now you are trying to locate the helicopter, but the operations are made difficult by the adverse weather conditions.

The helicopter, a 118 – Aw 139 – would have disappeared from radar in the province of l’aquila. According to preliminary information, the aircraft would have launched the signal of the crash while he was in town Casamaina, in the municipality of Lucoli, in the vicinity of the plain of Campo Felice.

One of the helicopter of the 118 fallen was a normal flight and rescue: the aircraft was not, in fact, engaged nor to the severe weather warnings, nor for the one related to the earthquake. Was not also part of the helicopters, which in these days are engaged on the avalanche that struck the hotel Rigopiano.

A group of cave Rescue in the alpine with skiing, is the party in great haste from the operating Centre of the municipal of Pens, headquarters of relief efforts. To journalists who asked if he had been found one of the survivors from the rubble of the hotel, they responded that they had to intervene in the rescue of a helicopter of 118 in the area between Happy Camp and The Eagle.

The weather conditions in the area are not good: the sky in Happy Camp it is cloudy, the wind is moderate and the temperature of -2 and, to a degree, but there is a lot of fog. According to what you learned in Rocca di Cambio, which is the country seat of the ski resort Campo Felice of rescue teams would be matches, but for the fog still would not be able to locate the aircraft.

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