Accidents
AW609 Crashed During High-speed Testing
Accident aircraft had logged 567 hours since its first flight in November 2006 and was scheduled to complete flight-testing by the end of next year.

AgustaWestland reaffirmed its commitment to the AW609 civil tiltrotor program in the wake of the October 30 fatal crash of the second prototype in Italy, outside Santhia in Vercelli province, that killed company test pilots Pietro Venanzi and Herb Moran. The company also revealed that the ship was scheduled to perform high-speed testing at the time of the crash.


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