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Pilot remains killed in a glider crash near Como (Italy)

Como, Italy - The Italian agency for flight safety starts an investigation

A Ventus glider, registration code D-3673, crashed in the afternoon of Saturday 15 September 2012 on a mount in the Lombard Alpine foothills, close to the village of Albavilla, in the Province of Como (Italy). The pilot Giovanni Moggio, a 72-yo entrepreneur and skilled pilot, member of the Alzate Brianza Gliding Club, was killed in the crash. The glider took off from Alzate Brianza airport at 13:38...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1145563
Rome, Italy, 09/17/2012 15:20
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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