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Around midnight, after hours of searching, the tourist helicopter that had issued the ELT alarm was found, received by the Poggio Renatico (Ferrara) rescue coordinating center and sent to the Valle de Aosta Single Rescue Center. IS’ precipitate in the Cervinia area, in the Cime Bianche area, about 3,000 meters above sea level. There were two people on board, both from Brescia. The business executive Alfredo Buddha lost his life in the accident, while his flight companion Giorgio Oliva He was transferred to the hospital in Bern (Switzerland) seriously hypothermic and is in serious condition.
After the first indication, which located the alarm on the Breithorn, with successive transmissions of the signal from the emergency device on board, the the accident area was located more precisely, reaching the area of the last plants in Valtournenche, towards the Val d’Ayas. Given the fog in the area, the “Air Zermatt” helicopter that had risen for the night flight was unable to continue its search. The crew, however, wanted to continue operations by land, joining the men of the Valdostano Alpine Rescue and the Financial Police, whose teams had been launched.
Upon reaching the crashed aircraft, the rescuers had to transfer the injured, seriously, but who was able to speak to the rescuers, to a higher area, where he could be recovered from the Swiss helicopter rescue. To what has been rebuilt so far, Buda and Oliva had arrived in Cervinia by helicopter to spend a Sunday on skis. The Robinson R44 touring with which they had traveled from Lombardy had been parked at the ski resort, as on other occasions in the past. The accident, about which the investigations of the Alpine Rescue of the Guardia di Finanza are underway, occurred during the return trip, made at around 4:00 p.m.
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The crashed Robinson photographed in the past in Cervinia.
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Rescuers at the scene of the accident.
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Rescuers at the scene of the accident.
