Marcos Di Palma must pay a million-dollar fine for having left an entire town without electricity

Federal Court No. 2 of San Nicolás imposed a fine of $8.4 million on former pilot and former provincial deputy Marcos Di Palma for having left a a town without light after colliding with a cable with his plane. This accident occurred in 2017 in the small city of Capitán Sarmiento, neighboring Arrecifes, where they reside, in the province of Buenos Aires.

Di Palma assumed his responsibility in a parole negotiation. The accusation was for the crime of hindering public services and was charged by the federal prosecutor Matías Di Lellothat he had requested his elevation to trial and had requested the confiscation of the plane, to which an expert found various defects and required a large budget for repairs.

To repair his actions, Di Palma will have to do community work every Saturday for a year at a school in the area and pay the $8.4 million “in a single payment, depositing said amount within a period of five (7) business days from the notification to the defense of the deceased.”

How the accident for which Di Palma was convicted occurred

On December 4, 2017 at noon, the former pilot landed a CESSNA 182J aircraft on the side of National Route 8, between the towns of Arrecifes and Capitán Sarmiento. When performing the manoeuvre, It hit its left plane against a high tension cable and left all of Captain Sarmiento without light and part of Carmen de Areco.

“Nobody did anything,” said the neighbor who tried to rescue the young woman attacked by bulldogs

The Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Board (JIAAC) identified Di Palma as the pilot and later found that his license expired. Di Palma had used to renew it in 2010, but his psychophysical fitness was rejected by the Aeronautical Authority.

RB PC