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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.
In 1988, three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori collided and crashed to the ground during an air show at Ramstein Air Base in Germany attended by around 300,000 people. The three pilots and 67 ...
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.
September 16 – A MB-339A/PAN MLU from the Italian Air Force Display Team's Frecce Tricolori crashed on takeoff after striking a bird in preparation of their attendance at the Vercelli Airshow the following day. The pilot ejected safely, but the plane struck a vehicle carrying a family, killing a five-year-old girl and seriously injuring the ...
A plane carrying 181 people, Jeju Air Flight 7C2216, crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea. A team of U.S investigators was being assembled to aid South Korea's probe into the crash.
Three Aermacchi MB-339PAN aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori: Ramstein Air Base, Germany 1994: Mar 23: 24 [N 4] 7 F-16 Fighting Falcon / C-130 Hercules: Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, U.S. 1997: Feb 4: 73: 0 Two IAF Sikorsky CH-53 helicopters: She'ar Yashuv, Israel: 1997: Sep 13: 33: 0 USAF C-141B Starlifter / German Air Force Tupolev Tu ...
A regional plane carrying 61 people crashed Friday in a residential neighborhood in Brazil, killing all on board, the airline said, as emergency crews blanketed the area.