{"id":49111,"date":"2022-10-27T20:24:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T18:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49111"},"modified":"2023-10-27T00:05:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T22:05:43","slug":"the-serious-accident-of-a-cl-415-seaplane-in-italy-the-pilot-and-co-pilot-have-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/27\/the-serious-accident-of-a-cl-415-seaplane-in-italy-the-pilot-and-co-pilot-have-died\/","title":{"rendered":"The serious accident of a CL-415 seaplane in Italy: the pilot and co-pilot have died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bombardier CL-415 firefighting seaplane has crashed this afternoon in Italy, on the slope of the Etna volcano, when fighting a forest fire.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/23\/the-shooting-down-of-a-russian-sukhoi-su-25-attack-plane-recorded-by-its-own-pilot\/\">The shooting down of a Russian Sukhoi Su-25 attack plane recorded by its own pilot<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/19\/the-spectacular-aerial-display-of-two-swiss-f-a-18-fighters-in-the-middle-of-the-alps\/\">The spectacular aerial display of two Swiss F\/A-18 fighters in the middle of the Alps<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainews.it\/tgr\/sicilia\/articoli\/2022\/10\/sic-canadair-morti-9bd511dc-7cdc-45d2-b502-5c248b3583b3.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAI News<\/a>, <strong>the pilot and co-pilot have died.<\/strong> The plane belonged to the Vigili del Fuoco, Italy's state civil firefighting agency. The plane was flying very low down the slope of Etna, and <strong>after discharging the water, its starboard wing grazed the ground, after which the plane crashed<\/strong>, in the middle of a wave of fire. Here we can see a video of what happened:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Catania: canadair precipita sull&#039;Etna. Le immagini dell&#039;impatto\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fAxl0TzSk-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>And here is another video of the accident<\/strong>, recorded from another place:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH Part 2: Firefighting AIRCRAFT CRASH OVER MOUNTAIN ETNA in Italy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tn-u1fBV7rY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/airplusnews\/status\/1585673430396977152\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Air Plus News<\/a> posted this <strong> photo of the plane wreckage: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52459037698_743101a024_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The CL-415 had civil registration I-DPCN<\/strong> and serial number 2008. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/aviation-safety.net\/database\/record.php?id=20030816-1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aviation-Safety.net<\/a>, the plane already had a serious accident on August 16, 2003 in Esine, Lombardy (<a href=\"https:\/\/baaa-acro.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-04\/I-DPCN.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">you can see the official report here<\/a>, which includes some photos). It then collided with some trees and crashed into the side of a mountain, injuring its two crew members. <strong>The aircraft was left in very poor condition, but everything seems to indicate that it was repaired.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the deceased crew members. Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44939325@N02\/4203528315\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maarten Visser<\/a>. An image of the CL-415 that crashed today, the I-DPCN, during a forest fire suppression operation in June 2009.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bombardier CL-415 firefighting seaplane has crashed this afternoon in Italy, on the slope of the Etna volcano, when fighting a forest fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,17020],"tags":[7087,11680,17726],"class_list":["post-49111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-civil-aviation","tag-bombardier-cl-415","tag-italy","tag-vigili-del-fuoco"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 04:48:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}