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The 2023 National Aerobatic Team Aermacchi MB-339 crash was an aviation accident that occurred on 16 September 2023 at Turin-Caselle Airport, located in the municipality of San Francesco al Campo. The incident involved an aircraft of the Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale , also known as the "Frecce Tricolori."
His plane crashed onto a taxiway near the runway, destroying a medevac helicopter and fatally injuring its pilot, Captain Kim Strader. Pony 2, the third plane involved in the disaster, was severely damaged from the impact with Pony 1, and crashed beside the runway, exploding in a fireball. Its pilot, Captain Alessio, died on impact.
Photos of the aftermath show the wreckage of the plane in a cornfield, and a burned and wrecked car overturned on the side of a road. The Frecce Tricolori is Italy’s premier team of acrobatic ...
27 May – Capt. Pier Gianni Petri of the Frecce Tricolori crashed and died at the RAF Mildenhall Airshow. Capt. Petri was flying a Fiat G91 which failed to recover from its dive during a "Bomb Burst" maneuver and crashed near the village of Beck Row. No one on the ground was injured during the accident.
The pilot, 2nd Lt Bruce D. Umland, 23, of Minneapolis and student-navigator 2nd Lt. Gregory Johnson, 22, of Duluth, Minnesota safely ejected from the plane before it crashed. The crash occurred on National Forest property about 12-1/2 miles north of Grass Valley, California (between Highway 49 and Marysville Rd) on a Tuesday morning.
An Italian Air force precision demonstration team made a colorful green, white and red flight over the Las Vegas Strip on Wednesday as part of a North American tour headed to Los Angeles and ...
In addition to its use as a general trainer, the MB-339 is also flown by the Frecce Tricolori aerobatic display team; during 1988, three aircraft were lost during a tragic air display accident in Germany. [16] In October 2013, it was announced that the Italian Air Force intended to replace its MB-339s with newly built M-345s in the long term.
An Aermacchi MB-339 of the Italian Air Force's Frecce Tricolori aerobatic demonstration team crashed near Caselle Airport, Turin, Italy. The pilot ejected from the aircraft and survived. A 5-year-old girl was killed on the ground, and three others were injured. [290] [291] 17 September