Airline Crashes in Italy with Tourist aboard. CNN breaking

[TrueAmerican]

no link yet

[newscott]

1. just one?

Tourist I mean.

[SoCalDem]

3. That's what I though too.. Tourism is down, but....

:(

[alarcojon]

2. BBC news ticker says

light aircraft crashes in Calabria, Italy. More soon.

[newscott]

4. It's definitely becoming dangerous to fly in Italy lately.

Sad to hear about this crash.

[alarcojon]

5. Link in Italian

http://www.repubblica.it/2005/h/sezioni/cronaca/aereocalabria/aereocalabria/aereocalabria.html

It looks like two passengers were on board, and two people died. I speak Spanish, not Italian, but that's what it looks like to me.

[TrueAmerican]

6. Translation

From Dictionary.com translator

In English:
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[alarcojon]

7. BBC link

A light aircraft has crashed in southern Italy, killing two people on board, say reports.

The plane came down in the Serra di Paola area of Calabria, Italian news agency Ansa said.

The two people on board both died in the accident, said Italian police quoted by Reuters news agency.

Italian firefighters described the aircraft as a "tourist plane". There was no immediate word on which airport it was flying to or from.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4149258.stm

[FightingIrish]

8. A little more readable translation

COSENZA - A touring airplane with two passengers has fallen in flames in culticvated land in the town of San Lorenzo Bellini, on the slope of Polino in the Province of Cosenza. Both the pilot and the passenger are dead and incinerated. The aircraft in flames was seen from a forest service lookout which sent out the alarm.

[prodigal_green]

9. I feel terrible for those victims

but how does a story about a light aircraft crashing in Italy make CNN, but the horrendous number of civilian deaths in Iraq, Niger and the Sudan barely gets a blip?

Yeah, I know, typical liberal response, but come on.

[Algorem]

10. Somebody mighta been fuckin with "The Family"?

Or 'a' "Family"?