Italy helicopter crash

Rome: Italian authorities said Saturday that a helicopter that disappeared from air traffic radar screens on Thursday was located and all seven on board ...

The aircraft went down after hitting an area of bad weather, news reports said. Monte Cusna is part of Italy's picturesque Apennine Mountain Range. According to news reports, a hiker passing through the area near Monte Cusna -- a mountain in the central Italian region of Emilia Romagna near its border with Tuscany -- called authorities after finding possible remains of the crash.

Bodies of passengers found two days after aircraft vanished from radar screens.

“We got the co-ordinates, we went to the site and found everything burnt. The helicopter was found in a mountainous area on the border between Tuscany and the Emilia Romagna region, the statement said. “The rescuers have found dead the seven passengers from the helicopter, four of Turkish and two of Lebanese nationality, who were on a business trip to Italy. As well as the Italian pilot,” the prefect’s office in the city of Modena said in a statement.

The bodies of four Turkish citizens, who were among the seven dead in a helicopter crash in northern Italy Thursday, were located by rescuers on Saturday.

The chopper was carrying seven people, including four Turkish citizens, two Lebanese and the Italian pilot, from Lucca to Treviso to visit a tissue paper production facility. The location was in a hard-to-reach valley and the chopper remains were hidden from air rescuers due to the lush tree cover, but some branches were broken and burned, he said. "The rescuers have found dead the seven passengers from the helicopter, four of Turkish and two of Lebanese nationality, who were on a business trip to Italy. As well as the Italian pilot," the prefect's office in the city of Modena said in a statement.