Five people were killed and two were missing after a helicopter crashed in bad weather.
The helicopter, which took off from Lucca in Tuscany, was on its way to Treviso when it vanished from radar screens due to bad weather.
Five people were killed in an Italian helicopter crash after the plane went missing for two days.
Two passengers are still missing after the plane vanished from radar screens after taking off from Lucca in Tuscany on Thursday.
The helicopter was on its way to the northern city of Treviso when it vanished from radar screens after encountering bad weather above a hilly, forested area.
The helicopter crashed in a mountain area near the border between Tuscany and Umbria, according to Eugenio Giani, the governor of the Tuscany region.
Four Turkish businessmen from Eczacibasi Consumer Products, a subsidiary of the major Turkish industrial group Eczacibasi, were aboard the helicopter.
According to the company, they were attending a paper technologies fair in Italy.
The other two passengers, according to the Lebanese state news agency NNA, were also Lebanese.
