Pilot's helmet found where American F-16 went missing
Search in fourth day off Italian coast
31 January, 13:08
(ANSA) - Cervia, January 31 - A pilot's helmet has been
recovered off Italy's northern Adriatic coast near where an
American F-16 fighter jet went missing Monday.
In an ongoing search, rescuers recovered a parachute on
Wednesday, and other fragments have been found in the area near
the town of Cervia.
The pilot lost contact with controllers at around 8pm local
time on Monday after taking off from the Aviano Air Base in
northern Italy.Sources at Aviano's Pagliano e Gori airport, which has jurisdiction over flights from the US airbase, said the fear is a technical problem occurred that was "so sudden and serious that the pilot did not have time to activate the mechanism that makes it possible to eject, after having established that the plane could not cause risks for the local population".
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