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| Date: | Friday 1 August 2014 |
| Time: | 09:30 LT |
| Type: |  AMX A-11B |
| Owner/operator: | Aeronautica Militare Italiana - AMI |
| Registration: | MM7115/32-23 |
| MSN: | IX027 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Carovilli (IS) -
 Italy
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Pratica di Mare (LIRE) |
| Treviso-Istrana (LIPS) |
A fighter Aermacchi/Aeritalia/Embraer (AMX International) AMX "Ghibli" ACOL in use at the Department of Experimental Flight of the Italian Air Force and took off from the Pratica di Mare Air Base, province of Rome, for a training flight, crashed in a mountainous area located in the Italian municipality of Carovilli, province of Isernia. Cap Francesco Sferra (35) was able to launch from the aircraft and survived.
Sources:
http://web.archive.org/web/20140803220907/http://www.aeronautica.difesa.it:80/News/Pagine/20140801_AMXIsernia.aspx
http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cronaca/2014/08/01/caccia-precipita-in-molise-salvo-il-pilota_c3406908-ce79-4082-889f-e018ec970764.html
http://www.primopianomolise.it/cronaca/21509/carovilli-precipita-caccia-amx/
http://lostarmour.info/aflosses/
http://www.scramble.nl/?option=com_sb&view=default&day=01&month=08&year=2014&sbm=Search&serial=&type=&unit=&status=&Itemid=66
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Aug-2014 13:13 | Black Typhoon | Added |
| 01-Aug-2014 19:36 | Black typhoon | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, ] |
| 01-Aug-2014 19:47 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 02-Aug-2014 19:19 | Black Typhoon | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, ] |
| 03-Aug-2014 13:41 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 17-Oct-2015 19:42 | junior sjc | Updated [Aircraft type, ] |
| 18-Jan-2016 19:19 | el_serj | Updated [Registration, Cn, Source, ] |
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