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AgustaWestland AW609 tilt-rotor prototype aircraft crashes in Italy killing two test pilots

October 30, 2015 David Cenciotti

An AW609 has crashed today killing two pilots. An AgustaWestland AW609 prototype has crashed near Santhià, in northwestern Italy, killing two test pilots on Oct. 30. The tilt-rotor aircraft had taken off from Agusta’s airfield […]