MADRID, 10 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –

A helicopter with seven people on board, including the pilot and six crew members, has disappeared this Thursday in the province of Lucca, in the Italian region of Tuscany.

The aircraft had taken off from Capannori, in the province of Lucca, and was heading to the Treviso area, in the northeast of the country. The disappearance alarm was given by the prefecture of Modena around 4:00 p.m. (local time). The helicopter is currently being searched for in the Apennine mountain range, on the border between the provinces of Modena and Lucca.

The exact area of ??the disappearance is that of the ridge between San Pellegrino in Alpe, Pievepelago, Piandelagotti, during the helicopter’s flight hours, a storm of wind, rain and hail has fallen in that area, as reported by ‘La Republic’.

The six members of the crew are foreign businessmen from the paper sector and the pilot is a worker of ‘Avio Helicopters’, a company based at the Arturo Ferrarin airport in Thiene (in Vicenza, in the Veneto region, also in northeastern Italy). ) and rent vehicles for tourist and business flights.