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AgustaWestland: to trial the supposed responsibles for the crash of the AW-609 aircraft

During the test flight, the two test pilots died

The first preliminary hearing will be held next October 16 against the executives of AgustaWestland-Leonardo regarding the accident of the AW-609 tilt-rotor (airplane+helicopter) registration N609AG, which occurred in Tronzano Vercellese on October 30, 2015. The two test pilots Pietro Venanzi and Herbert Gerald Moran III died in the accident.After more than two years of investigations and acquisitions...

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Rome, Italy, 09/04/2018 15:00
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

AccidentsAircraft. AgustaWestland AW-609 tilt-rotor crashes: two victims

Vercelli, Italy - It made test flights

Currently there is certainty only of the fact that witnesses heard a strong roar, a kind of explosion, with consequent rubble fall, and that the victims are two, the occupants of the AW-609 tilt-rotor... more

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