Bride's bouquet brings down plane
The traditional throwing of a bride's bouquet for luck ended in
disaster at an Italian wedding when the flowers caused a plane to crash.
The bride and groom had hired a small plane to fly past and throw the
bouquet to a line of women guests, Corriere della Sera reported on
Tuesday.
However, the flowers were sucked into the plane's engine causing it
to catch fire and explode.
The aircraft plunged into a hostel. One passenger on the plane was
badly hurt.
But about 50 people who had been in the hostel escaped unscathed, as
did the pilot. Entangled
The incident happened at Montioni park in Suvereto, near Livorno,
where the wedding reception was being held, Corriere della Sera said.
\A passenger on the aircraft, named as Isidoro Pensieri, 44, had the
job of throwing the bouquet as pilot Luciano Nannelli flew past. It is
believed the bunch of flowers became entangled as it was thrown, and was
sucked into one of the engines.
Pensieri suffered multiple fractures and a head injury. She was taken
to hospital in Grosseto by helicopter and then transferred to another in
Pisa, Italian media reported.
BBC |