Four airmen missing in jet collision

(see related) (ANSA) - Ascoli Piceno, August 19 - Four airmen were on board two Italian Air Force Tornado fighter jets that collided in midair over the eastern Marche region, military sources said Tuesday.
    The four airmen are missing and search-and-rescue teams are combing the wooded hills above the city of Ascoli Piceno for them, the sources said.
    Investigators found an engine and other pieces of the aircraft on the crash site, where firefighters are battling blazes raging in various locations on the wooded hills. Also on Tuesday, eyewitnesses said the collision was visible from miles away.
    The two aircraft were coming from opposite directions when they collided, and their impact caused a shower of blazing fragments to fall "like confetti," according to residents in the hilltop village of Casa Murana.