A 63-year-old Sardinian resident in the province of Perugia is missing after the Cessna Caravan 208 he was driving crashed in the Swiss Alps. The accident would have occurred on Wednesday.
Massimo Giua, well known in the aeroclub environment, was specialized in launch flights for paratroopers. He had taken off from Arezzo on Monday morning to go to Germany to carry out a technical check, on Wednesday he had to return. The departure took place regularly from Siegen along a route south to Switzerland. At 10.30 am on March 30, his radar was lost.
From the first information, the Cessna would have crashed on Mount Grenzchopf between the cantons of Appenzell and St. Gallen, perhaps due to weather conditions including fog, while flying at an altitude of about 7,100 feet and 166 knots of speed.
Search and rescue are difficult as the area is inaccessible and heavy snowfalls occurred in the area.
"The pilot - said the president of the Aeroclub Etruria, Gianluca Gaini - is very experienced and normally threw sport paratroopers".
The wreck, according to the footage taken by the Swiss rescue with drones, is located at the bottom of a gully lying almost vertically.
(Unioneonline / ss-D)