Alessandro Ognibene was injured on 3 October 2018 after being dragged by a military helicopter that was carrying out a NATO exercise on the coast of Ladispoli
The Ministry of Defense will have to compensate Alessandro Ognibene, a kitesurfer who was injured on 3 October 2018 after being dragged by a military helicopter that was carrying out a NATO exercise on the coast of Ladispoli, with more than 243 thousand euros. This is what was provided by the sentence issued by Adolfo Ceccarini, judge of first instance in the civil trial after the investigations by the harbor master’s office, as reported The Republic. However, the legal matter is still ongoing and the next hearing will be on 8 April. Among the accused, the head of the training called “Dark Night 2018” and the two pilots of the Chinook helicopter.
What happened in 2018
The events occurred in the early afternoon of October 2018, when a joint and multinational exercise was underway on the coast of Torre Flavia on the coast north of Rome. According to the first testimonies, Ognibene was dragged by the wing of the kitesurf to which he was attached and then made to fall to the ground, unconscious with such force as to cause serious personal injuries. “I remember that I regained consciousness when I was already on the ground and blood was coming out of my mouth. I wanted to get up. A security guard told me that I tried twice, but I realized that I couldn’t move. A very, very bad experience” , Ognibene had said.
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The man had been catapulted from the Chinook onto the beach of Torre Flavia from a height of about ten metres, writes Repubblica, but the defense had always denied the impact with the helicopter, focusing more on the “gust of wind” than on the suction which knocked the kitesurfer. Ognibene’s lawyer comments on the news of the compensation as “an important precedent before the criminal trial: the reconstructed dynamics are the responsibility of the ministry”.
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