Hang glider crashes while landing, two dead in San Miniato

A hang glider crashed while landing near Pisa, killing the two people on board: the pilot would have been very expert

BOLOGNA – A hang glider crashed today in Ponte Egola, in the municipality of San Miniato in the province of Pisa: the accident occurred in the morning, around 11.30, during the landing phase of the aircraft. They were on board two people who died. The hang glider was inside the Tuscany Flight airfield in Casa Bonello and crashed in the green area of ​​via Cavane. The firefighters intervened on site and extracted the lifeless bodies from the destroyed vehicle, the 118 rescue team and the police carried out investigations and investigations.

Two men living in Valdera, aged 40 and 50, lost their lives. According to the first information gathered by the investigators, the pilot of the hang glider was very experienced. The investigations will therefore understand whether the cause of the tragedy may have been a fault which made the aircraft ungovernable and a normal landing impossible. To understand this, experts will be needed.

This is the message released by the Municipality of San Miniato: “The municipal administration expresses its deepest condolences for the hang-gliding accident that occurred at the Tuscany Flight airfield in Casa Bonello this morning, in which two people lost their lives. Maximum closeness to the families of the victims and to the managers of the facility, who have always been very active in the city’s sporting fabric”.