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Itavia Flight 870, sometimes referred to as the Ustica massacre (Strage di Ustica) was an Italian domestic flight from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, in Bologna to Falcone Borsellino Airport, in Palermo, Italy.
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Accident | |
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Date | 27 June 1980 |
Summary | Crashed into the sea; cause disputed |
Site | Tyrrhenian Sea, near Ustica, Italy 38.839494°N 13.425293°E / 38.839494; 13.425293 |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 |
Operator | Itavia |
IATA flight No. | IH870 |
ICAO flight No. | IHS870 |
Call sign | ITAVIA 870 |
Registration | I-TIGI |
Flight origin | Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ) |
Destination | Palermo International Airport (PMO) |
Passengers | 77 |
Crew | 4 |
Fatalities | 81 |
Survivors | 0 |
The plane lost contact with the Rome Area control center, which is based at Rome-Ciampino Airport, mid flight. This was confirmed after the recovery of the aircraft relict from the sea and a long analysis of the radar data. After losing contact, the fuselage broke up in two pieces and fell in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Even though numerous decades have passed since the incident, numerous aspects of it still remain unclear, including the cause of the incident. Numerous hypoteses have been made reguarding the nature and cause of incident, these range from a terrorist bombing to a shootdown by a foreign military aircraft.
The ex President of Italy Francesco Cossiga and other Italian secret service sources have confirmed that the aircraft crashed as a result of the impact of a French missile, which hit the Itavia aircraft instead of a Libyan military jet.
The accident ultimately caused the failure of Itavia.