Plane crashed in Milan, the pilot: “New route due to bad weather”

A change of course due to bad weather. According to Adnkronos, this is the last communication between the pilot of the Pilatus PC12, crashed yesterday in San Donato Milanese, and the Linate control tower from where the tourist aircraft carrying eight people, all dead , had just taken off. Read also A sentence that would explain the ‘turn’ with respect to the initial journey. After take-off, the plane correctly traveled the route passing the Idroscalo and Segrate, then instead of continuing south towards Sardinia, it changed the route. A modification that triggered the audio exchange with the control tower that asked for an explanation. “I deviate slightly” due to bad weather the pilot’s request agreed with the control tower. But something went wrong and the small plane crashed with the engine on fire, according to the images and the accounts of some witnesses. A “vertical fall” that did not even give the pilot time – the Romanian real estate tycoon Dan Petrescu, 67, owner of the aircraft – to launch the SOS at the control tower.