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Italy sends other 100 soldiers in Iraq

Viterbo, Italia - They are going to use 3 Ch 47 and 4 AB 412 choppers

This morning more than 100 Italian soldiers (among chopper pilots and specialized technicians) have left, greeted by civil and militar authorities, the "Fabbri" airport in Viterbo to get to the Iraqi airport of Tallin, where they are joining the other Italian troops engaged in the military operation of the Italian government named "Old Babilonia". Three Ch 47 Chinook and four AB 412 helicopters are...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 54340
Rome, Italy, 10/30/2003 16:19
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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