Search continues for missing plane with 3 French people on board

Europe 1 with AFP
3:38 p.m., September 19, 2024

The search continues on Thursday in difficult weather conditions to try to find a small plane with three French people on board that has been missing since Tuesday in north-central Italy, rescue services said. The search is focusing on a mountainous area on the borders of Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany, more precisely between the Bocco and Uomo Morto mountains, on the Apennine chain that runs from north to south across Italy, the Alpine rescue services, in charge of the search, said in a brief statement.

Rescue operations disrupted by storm Boris

This area was determined by tracking the mobile phones of the passengers on the missing plane, a spokesman said. Rescue operations have been made particularly difficult by the weather conditions in the region, which has been affected by bad weather caused by the passage of storm Boris. At an altitude of 1,700 metres, the visibility of rescuers is limited to 5 metres. The plane took off from Paolucci airport near Modena, in Emilia-Romagna, on Tuesday, heading for France, and search operations were launched on Tuesday evening.