Tuesday, July 22, the tranquility of a summer afternoon was broken by a surreal scene on the highway connecting the A4 to the A21, near Azzano Mella, in the province of Brescia, in the north of Italy. An ULM (ultra -light motorized), with two people on board, violently crushed on the road, triggering an impressive fire and panicing among motorists.
Italy: a flight that turns into a nightmare on a highway
Captured by a surveillance camera, the moment of the crash is of striking brutality. In full circulation, the device suddenly stings towards the ground, before igniting in a ball of fire. It is then 12:19. The shock is such that two moving vehicles are also affected by the flames. While another stopped in the face of the shock of flames suddenly appeared before him.
Two people aboard the ULM died instantly. It will later be Sergio Ravaglia, a 75 -year -old lawyer, and Anna Maria de Stefano, 50. A third person, present in one of the vehicles, is injured and transported in emergency to the hospital, according to the Italian press.
🚨Tragedy in Italy as a light aircraft crashes onto the roadway. pic.twitter.com/5N2XzOvUlt
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The shock wave caused by the impact stopped traffic. Quickly on site, the emergency services are fighting against the flames, master a fuel leak, and are working to secure an area strewn with metallic debris.
An open investigation to shed light
While the images are looping on the web, the aeronautical and judicial authorities have opened an investigation to understand the exact circumstances of this drama. The state of the device, the weather conditions, or a human error: all the tracks are on the table.
To summarize
A small plane crashed on a highway near Brescia in northern Italy on July 22. The device caught fire after the impact, causing the death of its two occupants, Sergio Ravaglia (75) and Anna Maria de Stefano (50), and injuring two people on the cars affected by the flames. An investigation was opened to determine the causes of the accident.
