The burned remains of one of the two Italian air force U-208 planes which crashed in Guidonia, on the outskirts of Rome, is covered with a white cloth (Andrew Medichini/AP)
The burned remains of one of the two Italian air force U-208 planes which crashed in Guidonia, on the outskirts of Rome, is covered with a white cloth (Andrew Medichini/AP)
Two Italian air force pilots are dead after their planes collided mid-air and crashed to the ground during an exercise, the country’s armed forces said.
The two U-208s crashed near the Guidonia military airport, about 15 miles north-east of Rome.
No injuries on the ground were reported.
One of the planes crashed on to a car in a narrow residential street lined with apartment buildings.
The other landed in a field.
Premier Giorgia Meloni expressed her condolences to the pilots’ families and colleagues.