Two Italian air force planes collide mid-air, killing pilots
Two Italian air force pilots have been killed during an exercise when the light aircraft they were flying collided mid-air and crashed to the ground.
The two U-208 aircraft crashed near the Guidonia military airport, about 25km north-east of Rome.
No injuries on the ground were reported.
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Forensic police, Carabinieri, and air force personnel inspect the burned remains of one of the two Italian Air Force U-208 aircrafts that crashed in Guidonia, on the outskirts of Rome, on, March 7, 2023. The two pilots died in the accident. AP
The burned remains of one of the two Italian Air Force U-208 aircraft that crashed in Guidonia. AP
One of the planes crashed into a car on a narrow residential street lined with apartment buildings; the other landed in a field.
Premier Giorgia Meloni expressed her condolences to the pilots' families and colleagues.
"The news of the death of two Air Force pilots in a plane crash in Guidonia, near Rome, saddens us," she said in a statement.
The two planes were participating in a training mission, the Italian Air Force said in a statement.
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