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Investigation Continues Into Tunisian charter Mishap

Probe Focused On Three People

The pilot, a fuel truck driver and a fuel depot manager are at the center of an Italian government investigation into Saturday's watery crash of a chartered Tuninter ATR-72. Thirteen people were lost in the mishap.

As ANN reported in real time both Saturday and Tuesday, the aircraft was carrying tourists from Bari to the Tunisian resort of Djerba. Twenty-three people on board the plane survived when, after both engines quit, pilot Chefik Gharbi tried to make an emergency landing in Palermo. He didn't make it. Instead, the aircraft ditched in the Mediterranian.

The fact that both engines quit within minutes of each other has led Italian investigators to focus on the fuel -- was there enough in the tank? Was it contaminated?

Palermo's chief investigator, Piero Grasso, was reportedly investigating the fuel truck operator as well as the head of the fuel depot at Bari. Early indications were the truck fueled at least five other aircraft before it fueled the ATR. No other aircraft appeared to suffer problems related to impure fuel. Still, the probe focused on whether impurities at the bottom of the fuel truck's tank might have made it into the ATR's fuel tank.

FMI: www.enac-italia.it/enac_english.htm

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