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A Remembering of the Carabinieri who lost their lives due to the helicopter accident at Inverso Pinasca in 1984

On March 13th, 2025, a plaque was unveiled in memory of the Carabinieri who died in the flight accident at Inverso Pinasca (Turin) on March 13, 1984. Four Carabinieri lost their lives in the crash of an Agusta A 109. They were Brigadier General Mario Sateriale, commander of Piemonte, Liguria and Valle d'Aosta Region, and the crew members of the Volpiano-based 1st Nucleo Elicotteri Carabinieri: Captain Pilot Fausto Paniconi, Chief Warrant Officer Nivaldo Bianchini and Brigadier Mario Bertacchini.
The plaque was placed on the monument close to the Volpiano base inaugurated in 1999 in memory another accident which darkened the 1st Nucleo Elicotteri. On December 14, 1998 another A 109 of the Nucleo lost power while taking off from Volpiano and crashed causing the death of General Franco Romano, then commander of Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta Region, and the crew of Major Pilot Paolo Cattalini, commander of the 1st Nucleo Elicotteri, second pilot Chief Warrant Officer Gennaro Ammiranda and crew specialist Warrant Officer Giovanni Monda.

In the picture: the ceremony to remember the Carabinieri who died due to the flight accident at Inverso Pinasca on March 13, 1984. (Luciano Viola)

(Aeromedia, March 2025)