“They want to hide the truth.” The accusation made by Heather Ashley, the wife of David, the 49-year-old former British pilot of the RAF who died on 16 March 2022 in a plane crash on Legnone is a heavy accusation. The widow points the finger at the top management of Leonardo, the Italian jewel of the aerospace and defense industry that designed and produced the M 346 – a military training aircraft – in which her husband lost his life. The lawyers of the tricolor company have asked the judges who in England have launched a parallel independent investigation into what happened to temporarily suspend and postpone the investigation. They explained that they were unable to produce the flight logs, nor the other documents relating to the aircraft and the state of maintenance of the aircraft, nor the reports on the internal checks which have certainly been carried out: they claim that these are covered acts from the secrecy of the investigation in Italy. The magistrates and the British coroner who are dealing with the case had to solicit them and intimate the request twice which initially was not followed up. However, the proposal was canceled and in September we returned to the courtroom again, without waiting for what could possibly happen in Lecco, where the prosecutor’s consultant, an expert in aviation safety, took almost 12 months to analyze all the data obtained from the black boxes and file his report and where the investigations are only at the preliminary stage. England has also been urged to block the jets of the same model that crashed on the ground for safety until the causes of the disaster are ascertained. “My main concern is to prevent this from happening again,” explains Heather, who doesn’t want other pilots to die, as happened to her husband, nor that civilians get involved.
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