--- title: "One Dead, Three Injured In Italian Air Force Display Team Crash" date: "2023-09-16" modified: "2023-09-16" authors: - name: "Stetson Payne" link: "https://www.twz.com/authors/stetson-payne" url: "https://www.twz.com/one-dead-three-injured-in-italian-air-force-display-team-crash" categories: - "Around The Globe" - "Europe" - "News & Features" tags: - "Crash" --- # One Dead, Three Injured In Italian Air Force Display Team Crash ![Crash on takeoff Italian Air force]() *QuotidianoCanavese Youtube channel* An Italian Air Force *Frecce Tricolore* acrobatic team pilot ejected less than a second before a deadly crash on takeoff from the Turin-Caselle Airport in northwest Italy. [Video posted to YouTube]() shows one of the team's Aermacchi MB-339PAN jets break from its five-ship formation while struggling to gain altitude. The pilot ejected just before impact. The flaming wreckage careened out of the airport perimeter and struck a car, killing a 5-year-old girl and sending her three surviving family members to the hospital with burns, per a report from [Italy's *ANSA* news agency](). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_THWypmVaNk *ANSA* reported the plane had an engine problem during takeoff before the crash. *Frecce Tricolore* were reportedly en route to perform at the Vercelli Airshow on Saturday. https://twitter.com/RadarBoxCom/status/1703083966519992751 The Turin prosecutor's office has begun an investigation into the crash, *ANSA* reported. The *Frecce Tricolore* have flown the MB-339PAN since 1982 and were previously equipped with the Fiat G.91 PAN. ![]() *The Frecce Tricolore performs at the 2015 Dubai Air Show. (U.S. Air Force via Wikimedia Commons)* Three members of the team and 67 spectators were killed in the Ramstein airshow disaster following a low-altitude mid-air collision in 1988. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RkTigWxL-c We will update this story as more information becomes available. *Contact the author: stetson.payne@thewarzone.com* ### Author social links