Enac: 'There was no security hole at Orio'. Psychological support for passengers
'Alarmed and manned emergency exits are a safety requirement'. The man who died at Orio al Serio is 35-year-old Andrea Russo from Calcinate in the province of Bergamo
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At Orio al Serio, where yesterday a 35-year-old man, Andrea Russo, passed through an alarmed emergency exit chased by the police and entered the runway, only to be sucked in by an aircraft engine, 'Enac has no concerns about the safety of the airport structure and air transport'. President Pierluigi Di Palma told Ansa that the authority had requested a report from the territorial director. "We will read it carefully but no infrastructural difficulties emerge," he said. Said even more clearly, 'the security garrison worked and showed no holes'.
The 'alarmed and manned emergency exits are a safety requirement' explained Di Palma. And at Orio al Serio 'the infrastructure is up to standard'. The president of the National Civil Aviation Authority spoke of what had happened as a 'tragic event', assuring that 'the safety of air transport was not at risk'. In the immediate aftermath of the accident, 'we assisted passengers' also 'with psychological support' using a protocol developed after the Linate air disaster, where 118 people died on 8 October 2001. A protocol fine-tuned with the 8 October association, set up not to forget the accident and to deal with aviation safety. Only last month, Orio airport hosted the work of the Icao (International civil aviation organisation) group dedicated to assisting air accident victims and their families (Aaavf), thanks to the cooperation of the 8 October Association of Enac and Sacbo. (Ansa).
Man who died at Orio al Serio was 35-year-old Andrea Russo from Calcinate
His name was Andrea Russo, the 35-year-old man who allegedly committed suicide yesterday morning at 10 a.m. by being sucked into the engine of a plane departing from Bergamo Orio al Serio airport. From Calcinate, in the province of Bergamo, he was a resident of Brescia.
Yesterday morning he arrived at the airport in his car, a red Fiat 500. He got out of the vehicle, rushed into the arrivals area, opened a door and then headed towards the turbines of the aircraft as it rolled, sources told Adnkronos.
The plane involved in the accident was an Airbus A319 of the companyVolotea, departing from Orio and heading to Asturias, Spain. Apparently, the aircraft had just departed from the apron where passengers were loaded, when the accident occurred..
