Some are out of order. Unfortunately, someone "also crashed". For this reason «our Canadair fleet has become increasingly thinner over time. I remember that this amphibious aircraft was designed in Canada and this company has not produced aircraft for decades. Some of those present in our country are out of order and others have unfortunately crashed. And I like to remember that not even the European Union has a firefighting fleet worthy of the name."

This was said by the Minister for Civil Protection, Nello Musumeci, responding to a question during a hearing which requested the presence of a Canadair in Sardinia in order to shorten the response times in the event of a fire.

For the construction of new planes «we have involved two industrial groups, one of which already has a project for one very similar to the Canadians. At the moment there are two parallel negotiations: one with the former Canadair and another with Leonardo".

Compared to this state of affairs, Musumeci added, «I don't want to have any illusions that with the limited number of aircraft supplied one of these could be delivered to Sardinia. I say this without controversy, but in recent years no government has thought about this issue, which is important."

(Unioneonline)