5 killed in helicopter crash near Tuscany; 2 still missing

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ROME - Five people were killed after a helicopter crash in Italy, a regional governor said on Saturday . Two passengers were still missing two days after the aircraft vanished from radar screens.

Mr Eugenio Giani, governor of the Tuscany region, wrote on Facebook that the helicopter crashed in a mountain area along the border between Tuscany and the Emilia Romagna region.

The bodies of the five dead were found on Saturday. The helicopter took off on Thursday from Lucca in Tuscany and was heading towards the northern city of Treviso when it disappeared from radar screens after hitting bad weather above a hilly, wooded area. Seven people were aboard the helicopter, including four Turkish businessmen working for Eczacibasi Consumer Products, a subsidiary of the major Turkish industrial group Eczacibasi. They had been attending a paper technologies fair in Italy, the company said in a statement.More On This Topic

 

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