ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 232281
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| Date: | Sunday 10 March 1968 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Cessna 310 |
| Owner/operator: | private |
| Registration: | N.... |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Roccasecca di Volsci -
 Italy
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| Phase: | |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Catania (10:30) |
| Rome-Ciampino Airport | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A Cessna 310 crashed into mountain (Monte Matavello) between Latina and Frosinone. Pilot Bill Hegel.
Two scientists with the USGS, were enroute to a project in Chad in a scientifically equipped Cessna 310 plane. They were asked to make a stopover in Italy for the purpose of working with Italian counterparts on an air survey of the 1968 Belice earthquake disaster area to see if there were hot spots or fissures which would indicate volcanic phenomena in connection with the earthquakes.
Later when the pilot was enroute back to Rome from Sicily to show the plane to the Italians concerned, the plane crashed killing the pilot.
Sources:
L'Unita 12 March 1968, p7
https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACL009.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Jan-2020 14:46 | TB | Added |
| 26-May-2022 06:20 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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