Italian police have Roast eight helicopters And investigate four pilots associated with a company that offers round trips through Pompeii’s archaeological ruins of Pompeii last week, claiming that a laundry list of safety and operational violations.
With reference to concern ‘as extremely dangerous for public and private security,’ said public prosecutor Nunzio Fragliasso of the municipality of Torre Annunziata in a Press release of April 24 That a preventive seizure of aircraft was necessary “to interrupt the illegal activities.”
The Fragliasso press release accuses the company Rotorstech -based company of performing panoramic flights for profit without authorizations or operational license, just like November 2024. He also accused the four persons investigated, one of whom serves the legal representative of the professional patchy. were authorized for aerial navigation.
Fragliasso noted that in certain cases the luggage of tourists are reportedly resting on the air control panels of the helicopters or otherwise stored incorrectly during the flight tours. Another allegation outlined that the pilots flew around Pompeii’s ruins and crowds of people and had both starting and landings in critical zones near schools, highways, railways and other obstacles.
No names were mentioned in the press release, although public data indicate that a person named Giuseppe Pennino Rotortech owns from 2018and another individual called Enrico Abagnale, who received a pilot permit of 33 months for low flying and Picerum The company is also affiliated with the company about the funeral service of a Mafia boss in 2015.
Hyperallergic has contacted the stated telephone number of Rotortech via WhatsApp. Abagnale did not respond to a request for comment.
Air tourism has been exploded in popularity worldwide as a means of offering new perspectives of archaeological miracles and cultural sights, with remarkable excursions, including hot air balloons about Angkor Wat in Cambodia during sunrise and private flights that the Nazca lines, among others. While tours through the ruins and excavation locations of Pompeii are popular, air reproduction would emphasize the enormous size of the old city, whose secrets are discovered from day after day.
