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Runway Breach Kills Man at Bergamo Airport, Triggers Security Inquiries

Investigators reconstruct the runway incursion, with safety regulators probing procedural and structural gaps ahead of formal findings

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Overview

  • Prosecutors are reconstructing the sequence and assessing whether the runway breach by Andrea Russo was a voluntary act.
  • ENAC’s commission and SACBO’s pending security report will probe structural and procedural gaps at Orio al Serio airport.
  • Flight operations resumed midday after a two-hour halt that led to cancelled departures and diverted arrivals.
  • Technical teams are analyzing surveillance footage and conducting vulnerability assessments to shore up airport controls.
  • Eyewitnesses recounted the man’s elusion of stewards and the moment he was sucked into a taxiing engine, prompting psychological support for those aboard.