The pilot of a vintage biplane taking
part in shooting for a film on the Austrian Empire's WWI Fallen
Soldier had a heart attack Monday but still managed to land the
1930s Tiger Moth before dying and sending it onto the grass of
the airstrip in northern Italy.
The incident happened at the Romeo Sartori Serodrome at Asiago
near Vicenza in Veneto.
The man, 73-year-old Renato Fornaciari, was originally from near
Parma but had been resident for some time in Trentino in the far
northeast of Italy.
The plane had been rented for Italian film director Marco
Paolini's Never-Never Land, the Real Story of Peter Pan, about
an Austroa-Hungarian soldier who died in the 1918 Battle of
Monte Grappa and who is buried in the Cima Grappa Shrine.
On board with Fornaciari was a camerman who was filming some
aerial shots. On-land shooting of the biplane had been postponed
due to cloudy weather.
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