A helicopter disappeared Thursday after taking off from Tignano Airport in northern Italy in a deserted mountainous area between Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna with two Lebanese passengers.
There are still no traces of the carrier plane with the Lebanese, Italian pilot and 4 Turks.
And “Sky News Arabi” was informed by special sources in the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs that “the search operation of the Civil Protection Organization with the help of firefighting helicopters is continuing and continued until late Thursday night and resumed on Friday.” Morning.”
The helicopter disappeared from radar on Thursday, and the last cell attached to the pilot’s phone was found in the Modena Apennine in the Bivibellago area, where severe turbulence was recorded at the time.
“We are following the details of what is happening in Rome and we are in full contact with Italy, which is doing everything,” Ambassador Qadi Khoury, director of political affairs at the Lebanese Foreign Ministry, told Sky News Arabic. “Attempts to locate the missing helicopter.”
Khoury added: “The Lebanese ambassador to Italy went to the Vicenza region and the helicopter went missing, and the Italian authorities have been following the matter carefully, seriously and persistently since Thursday, and we are in contact with him through our ambassador.” There. “
“Turkish citizens who were on the helicopter were to attend a trade fair in Italy,” Turkish media sources also said.
He added: “This helicopter belongs to an Italian company of home health products and was used to transport customers to its factory.”
INDEVCO director Giuliano Jilin told the Italian news agency ANSA that he was “confident” that the helicopter had not crashed because it had not sent an emergency signal.
“We started the search operation on Thursday afternoon, but the weather was very bad and it was difficult until the evening of the flight,” said a spokesman for the rescue service in the area.
Seven helicopters belonging to the military aviation, police and rescue services are participating in the operation.
The spokesman added: “It is not an easy task, if a helicopter falls in the middle of the trees this season, the branches will be pulled on it and it will be difficult to see it from the air.”
The National News Agency also reported: “The search has been going on since last Thursday evening to find the missing helicopter in northern Italy with 7 people on board, including two Lebanese and four Turks, in addition to the pilot. Yesterday, the IAEA National News Agency was able to obtain the names of the missing:
Lebanese, Shadi Karidi and Tariq Tayah and Turks:
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Ilker Ochak,
Erbilaltug Bulent,
Research is currently concentrated in the province of Modena in an area from the Alps to the Apennine Mountains of Modena, especially in the area adjacent to the municipality of Frasinro, where the helicopter is thought to be lost in a forested area and natural reserves. Due to the severe storm, it is possible that the 33-year-old Italian pilot Korado Livorin, who has high professional experience, will have poor eyesight, but work is being done via satellite to find his position.
A delegation from the Lebanese Embassy in Rome led by Ambassador Mira Dehr and a delegation from the Turkish Embassy met in Modena yesterday and met closely with Governor Alexandra Kambourota to follow up the search operation.
Al-Wataniyah confirmed in a call with Antonio Carpo, a former civil defense commissioner, that “it is possible to find the missing plane today and the place of its disappearance has been identified.”
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Source: Lebanon Debate