{"id":3498,"date":"2019-01-28T09:26:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2019-01-28T09:26:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:26:44","slug":"mid-air-crash-in-italy-kills-seven-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3498","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Air Crash in Italy kills Seven People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Jodel D140E from the Aeroclub de Megeve and an Airbus Helicopters AS350B3 collided in mid-air over the Italian Alps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MILAN (Reuters) &#8211; Four Germans were killed in a mid-air collision between a helicopter and a light aircraft in the Italian Alps on Friday with the other three victims were from Italy, France and Belgium, Italian police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jodel-D140E.jpg?fit=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3500\" width=\"609\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jodel-D140E.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jodel-D140E-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jodel-D140E-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Jodel-D140E-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><figcaption><strong>A Jodel D140E<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t reveal the names because some of the families still don\u2019t know,\u201d one official at the joint office of Alpine rescue and police in Entreves, in the Aosta Valley, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two survivors were a Frenchman and a German, the official said. The French survivor was under investigation in connection with the accident, he added, without giving any further details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The German Foreign Ministry said officials at its consulate in Milan were working closely with Italian authorities to confirm the identity of the victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two aircraft collided in mid-air above the Rutor glacier in the Aosta Valley, some 80 km (50 miles) northwest of the city of Turin on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Italian rescue workers had found five of the victims and the two survivors on Friday. Two more bodies were discovered in the snow some distance from the wreckage of the two aircraft on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not yet clear how the accident happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reporting by Francesca Landini; Additional reporting by Andrea Shalal in Berlin; Editing by Keith Weir<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Airbus-Helicopters-AS350B3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3501\" width=\"609\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Airbus-Helicopters-AS350B3.png 900w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Airbus-Helicopters-AS350B3-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Airbus-Helicopters-AS350B3-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><figcaption><strong>an Airbus Helicopters AS350B3<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Germans were killed in a mid-air collision between a helicopter and a light aircraft in the Italian Alps on Friday with the other three victims were from Italy, France and Belgium, Italian police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,868,1103],"tags":[3205,539,47,3208,3209,3207,1033,736,3213,3212,1371,2063,1931,3204,3206,2023,412,1288,3211,3210,817],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-aeroclub","tag-air","tag-airbus","tag-alps","tag-aosta","tag-as350b3","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-d140e","tag-glacier","tag-helicopters","tag-italian","tag-italy","tag-jodel","tag-megeve","tag-mid","tag-news","tag-reuters","tag-rutor","tag-turin","tag-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3502,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}