Troubled plane dumps 80 tons of kerosene on the Ligurian Sea!
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Safety procedure for humans, disaster for the environment. Eighty tons of kerosene were dumped over the Ligurian Sea at the center of Pelagos, the Cetacean Sanctuary (about 70 miles off Genoa), from a plane in distress.
WHAT HAPPENED
Genova24.it reports, “Last night, Alitalia’s flight Az786 was supposed to fly from the Lombard capital to Tokyo. The plane, an Airbus A330 that left Malpensa at about 7:30 p.m., encountered technical problems a few minutes after takeoff when it was over Trentino, forcing it to turn around. But before descending on Milan, after an extensive tour, the crew opted for Fuel Dumping, a safety procedure that involves emptying the tanks before a possible emergency landing. And so, the fuel load for the intercontinental flight that had just begun ended up in the Ligurian Sea, in the middle of Pelagos, the Cetacean Sanctuary, that is. 80 tons of fuel scattered in the sea, about 70 km off Genoa.”
A major environmental disaster (the fuel vaporizes in laga part before it hits the water, but still remains circulating in the air) about which little will be heard. Giovanni D’Agata, president of “Sportello dei Diritti,” considers the affected area to be at risk and calls for “responsible institutions to intervene on the area company in order to force it to carry out meticulous control and remediation work.”
Update: The Coast Guard is conducting a check on the area.
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