"Little deviation", "Little deviation": this is the last sentence pronounced, at the address of the radar room, by the pilot of the Pilatus crashed yesterday, causing 8 deaths, shortly after the departure from Linate.
A turn to the right, but without specific alarms, the one communicated by accompanying it to the request for a "carrier", that is, a space to return to the airport. After less than a minute the swooping descent and the terrible crash.
This is what is beginning to emerge from the reconstruction of the terrible accident that took place shortly after 1pm yesterday and which cost the life of Dan Petrescu, the Romanian tycoon who was at the controls of the small plane, his wife and his 30-year-old son Dan Stefan, and again to Julien Brossard, 36 years old, a friend of Petrescu of Canadian nationality, and to the Italian-French family made up of Filippo Nascimbene, 33 years old of Pavia origin but resident in Milan, by his son Raphael, born in 2020 in the Lombard capital, by his wife Claire Stephanie Caroline Alexandrescou, 34, born in France, and her mother Miruna Anca Wanda Lozinschi, 65-year-old Romanian with French citizenship.
THE RECONSTRUCTION - As far as has been known from qualified sources, about three minutes after take-off from Linate (at 13.04 yesterday) the plane, which should have reached, after departure, a standard altitude (thus indicating the departure route ) of 5 thousand feet, when it was at a height of about 3500-4000 feet it continued in an anomalous way to veer to the right, as emerged from the tracks of the Linate Radar Control Center, which deals with traffic in the north-west skies Italy.
When departing from Linate the planes all proceed north and then, if they have to go south (the Pilatus was headed for Olbia), they initially veer right for a while and then go south in a direction that passes over Piacenza. In this case, however, the plane continued to turn right without going south.
The radar room, noticing the anomaly, immediately contacted the Pilatus and the pilot, the Romanian tycoon Dan Petrescu, replied explaining that he was making a "deviation", apparently he said something like "little deviation", and subsequently asked for that too. which in technical jargon is called a "vector", ie space and coordinates to return to the airport. "Vector" which was immediately indicated by the radar room. The pilot, however, did not report what the problem was and therefore a specific alarm signal did not arrive from the plane.
Then no more communications arrived after the request of the "carrier", but in the control room it was immediately understood that the Pilatus had requested the return, because evidently there was an emergency (such as a problem of bad weather or an engine failure ). So much so that the temporary block of traffic on Linate started from the same room as foreseen in these cases.
Less than a minute after the last communications (between 30 and 60 seconds), the flight has disappeared from the radar track, as happens when a plane suddenly begins to crash.
(Unioneonline / vl)