When the vehicle was approaching, during the landing phase of the hang glider, something went wrong.
We have to report a bad accident that took place in Tuscany, but it is not at all a road accident, as often happens and as we often report. Unfortunately, a real tragedy occurred with a hang glider which crashed leaving no escape for the two on board the vehicle.
The hang glider, usually used as a tourist means of observing breathtaking views and panoramas from very different perspectives than usual, has crashed to the ground in the municipality of San Miniato, in the province of Pisa. The impact immediately caused the death of the two men on board.
The victims they are two Italians, Paolo Fagiolini and Riccardo Montanari, aged 59 and 41, who were taking part in a tour of the Tuscan skies aboard the ultralight vehicle. The terrible crash occurred late in the morning, around 11.30 am, while the hang glider was returning to base at the Tuscany Flight airfield in San Miniato.
When the vehicle was approaching, during the landing phase of the hang glider, something went wrong and the impact was violent and lethal. The aircraft was approaching the runway, like those usually seen, in the meadows suitable and comfortable for these operations, when, for reasons yet to be determined, the pilot lost control. The hang glider then launched too quickly to the ground. The impact was extremely violent and completely destroyed the vehicle. The two occupants, as anticipated, lost their lives immediately due to the very serious trauma they suffered.
Despite the immediate intervention of the firefighters and medical personnel, there was nothing that could be done for the two men. The scene before rescuers it was extremely painful: the hang glider completely crumpled and the bodies of the two men lifeless. The firefighters rushed with several teams from Pisa to free the two men from the metal structure of the aircraft.
The police intervened to carry out investigations and start the operations investigations in order to reconstruct what happened. The pilot was an expert with many years of experience, which is why we think it was an illness of the pilot or a technical failure of the hang glider.
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