Italian Military Jet Crashes During Exercise, Killing 5-Year-Old Girl

Emergency personnel work on the scene where a jet of aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Air Force the "Frecce Tricolori" (Tricolor Arrows) crashed during an exercise in San Francesco al Campo, near Turin, Italy, on Sept. 16, 2023. Massimo Pinca/Reuters

TURIN—An Italian military jet crashed during an exercise in Turin, hitting a car in which an entire family was traveling and killing a five-year-old girl, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said on Saturday.

Italian news agency AGI reported that the victim’s nine-year-old brother was seriously injured, while the two parents and the jet’s pilot were not in life-threatening danger.