One Dead, Three Injured In Italian Air Force Display Team Crash


An Italian Air Force Frecce Tricolore acrobatic team pilot ejected less than a second before a deadly crash on takeoff from the Turin-Caselle Airport in northwest Italy.

Video posted to YouTube shows one of the team's Aermacchi MB-339PAN jets break from its five-shop formation while struggling to gain altitude. The pilot ejected just before impact. The flaming wreckage careened out of the airport perimeter and struck a car, killing a 5-year-old girl and sending her three surviving family members to the hospital with burns, per a report from Italy's ANSA news agency.

ANSA reported the plane had an engine problem during takeoff before the crash. Frecce Tricolore were reportedly en route to perform at the Vercelli Airshow on Saturday.

Condolences to the family and the pilot that will have to live with that on his conscience.

Great acrobatic team, seen them many times. Very professional, seems like a tragic incident.

How weird. I watch a video last week on YouTube about a crash involving this same group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramstein_air_show_disaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kzup8-1eGA

Yes NFB, I'm sure most of us are well aware of the Ramstein Crash, it is unfortunate for this Demo team that that accident will forever haunt them.