P.1HH crash resulted in 2 months delay for delivery to Italian Air Force

The crash of a P.1HH Hammerhead unmanned aerial vehicle prototype on May 31 has resulted in a two-month delay in the delivery process for the Italian Air Force, the Piaggio Aero revealed.

Piaggio P.1HH HammerHead at Paris Air Show 2013 1
By Tangopaso (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

The company also disclosed that a pilot was on board the aircraft when it went down and a second prototype was on its way to UAE on the same day of the crash. It is also waiting for the Italian authorities to give the green light to resume flight tests.

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