Overview

• Flight clearance granted after technical reviews was withdrawn overnight between August 24 and 25, halting a planned search for Natalia Nagovitsyna and the recovery of Luca Sinigaglia.
• Local authorities officially declared Nagovitsyna dead after roughly 13 days stranded near 7,000 meters with a broken leg, and searches were suspended.
• The Italian team—pilots Manuel Munari and Marco Sottile with mountain guide Michele Cucchi—had coordinated with Ak-Sai and was to fly an H125 from Bishkek to Karkara, joined by Kazakh dronist Andrey Maglevanyy and Russian guide Alexander Semenov.
• Sinigaglia, 47, died on August 15 on Pobeda Peak while trying to assist his colleague and was reported to have suffered high‑altitude cerebral edema.
• With authorization revoked and no new timetable announced, Sinigaglia’s body remains on the mountain as the Italian team returns to Bishkek to fly back to Italy, after days of −30°C temperatures, snowstorms and high winds stymied operations.