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Italian Ultralight Falls from Sky Killing Experienced Pilot and eighteen year old Photographer

What: Privately owned Alpi Aviation Pioneer 300
Where: San Donà di Piave (Venezia
When: Feb 5, 2012
Who: 2 aboard, 2 fatalities
Why: After taking off from Caposile Airfield, the plane lost altitude and fell vertically. and crashed in a field near San Donà di Piave. Franco Borin, 45 and Simone Conte, 18 died on impact. Conte was flying in order to take photographs.

The judge has ordered autopsies on the victims.

Investigators question the structural integrity of the aircraft.

Police and firefighters of San Donà di Piave responded to the scene.

The Alpi Aviation Pioneer 300 is classified as an ultralight.

Prosecutor Rita Uglolini who is coordinating the investigation has acquired a video which may have documented the fall.

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