Overview
- The Tecnam P2008 ultralight left Capo d'Orlando bound for Sibari and failed to arrive, prompting relatives to alert authorities when the pilot stopped answering messages.
- Search-and-rescue operations began the night before and are focused in the Fuscaldo–Falconara Albanese corridor with teams on land, boats at sea, a Vigili del Fuoco helicopter Drago VF165 and an Army aircraft.
- Both occupants, lawyer Carlo Arnulfo and his partner Angela Bucci, remain unaccounted for and no wreckage or confirmed crash site has been found.
- Rescuers note bad weather in the area and investigators have raised spatial disorientation as a possible cause while keeping open the possibility of a sea impact.
- Officials activated the Prefettura missing-persons plan and will continue coordinated air, sea and ground searches as they await any discovery that could pinpoint the aircraft's location.