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Italian Navy: more details on Harrier aircraft incident

Rome, Italy - Occurrence happened at the end of a scheduled drill

This morning, after exercise scheduled over the Jonian sea, an AV-8 aircraft of the Italian Navy, following a technical problem, plunged into the sea. The pilot parachuted after verifying the aircraft did not constitute a danger. After the ditching, the pilot was rescued and recovered from a fisher-vessel and subsequently transferred to a Coast Guard patrol boat directly in Corigliano Calabro (Cosenza). Tutorial...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1119115
Rome, Italy, 07/14/2010 14:38
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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