A1 Pentagon Curbs Pilots in Italy The Pentagon said that American flight crews working in Aviano, Italy, were now prohibited from low-level training flights like the one that hit a ski-lift cable 13 months ago, killing 20 people.
On Tuesday a Marine electronic warfare plane sliced through a ski-lift cable in northern Italy during a training flight and sent 20 people aboard a cable car plunging to their deaths.
American lawyers representing 7 of the 20 people killed when a Marine warplane severed a ski-lift cable near Aviano, Italy, in February are seeking millions of dollars from the United States Government.
It was a jet on a training flight from Aviano on Feb. 3 that flew too low and severed a ski-lift cable, causing a gondola to crash to the ground, killing all of the passengers.
I said I'd remember that if ever I found him dangling upside down by one toe from a ski-lift cable.
A jury of eight Marine officers began deliberating this afternoon whether a pilot whose plane struck ski-lift cables in the Italian Alps 13 months ago was guilty of a crime, or whether the incident that killed all 20 people in a gondola was simply an accident.
The Marine Corps said today that the pilot and the navigator of a plane that struck a ski-lift cable in the Italian Alps, killing 20 people, were being charged with obstruction of justice because they had hidden or destroyed a videotape, apparently made during the flight.
A1 The Pentagon agency that drew up the outdated map used in the bombing of the Chinese Embassy has figured in two other recent international incidents, including the accident in which a Marine Corps jet struck a ski-lift cable in Italy.
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency prepared the maps for the crew of the Marine Corps jet that struck a ski-lift cable in February 1998 near Aviano, Italy, leaving 20 people dead.
Prodi said U.S. aid for the victims would come from Aviano, the U.S. air base out of which an American plane recently sliced a ski-lift cable, killing 20 people and starting a wave of anti-Americanism in Italy.
