Overview
- The Eurocopter EC135/Airbus H135 departed Costigliole d’Asti for Verona before crashing between Casalromano and Isola Dovarese around 10:40 a.m. local time.
- Emergency services coordinated by AREU arrived with an ambulance, a medical car and an air-rescue helicopter dispatched from Brescia.
- Firefighters report the aircraft clipped an Enel power pylon and struck trees before impacting open farmland shrouded in dense fog.
- The sole occupant, identified as 56-year-old Marco Eusebio Pavan, was found near the wreckage and pronounced dead at the scene.
- Investigators are reconstructing the flight and have not ruled out poor visibility, a pilot medical event or a technical failure as they secure evidence and analyze the wreckage.