Italy's former prime minister claimed that a French missile was behind the deadly 1980 Ustica plane crash that left 81 people dead, local media reported on Saturday. In an interview with La Repubblica ...

Giuliano Amato, who held the position of Italy's Prime Minister for two terms, recently made some startling claims during an exclusive interview with La Repubblica newspaper. He suggested that a ...

Itavia Airline’s Flight 870 from Bologna to Palermo was already two hours late when it took off at 6:08 on a balmy June evening in 1980. Less than an hour into the flight, the jetliner, a DC-9 with 81 ...

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ROME – Itavia Airline’s flight 870 from Bologna to Palermo already was two hours late when it took off at 6:08 on a balmy June evening in 1980. Less than an hour into the flight, the jetliner, a DC-9 ...

What happened on the evening of June 27, 1980, in Ustica? The Itavia DC-9 I-Tigi, flying from Bologna to Palermo with the radio call sign IH870, disappeared from the radar screens of the Rome air ...

(ANSA) - Rome, October 22 - Italy's supreme Court of Cassation found, in a ruling filed Tuesday, that a missile was the definite cause of a mysterious airplane crash more than three decades ago near ...

Ustica or the rubber wall. Notice how the most frequent synonym for talking about the Ustica massacre, which occurred on June 27, 1980, is "rubber wall," just like the title of Marco Risi's famous ...

ROMEROME — An Italian court has ordered the government to pay euro100 million ($137 million) in civil damages to relatives of 81 people killed in a 1980 aircraft disaster that remains one of Italy’s ...

On June 27, 1980, a DC-9 operated by the Italian airline Itavia departed from Bologna and, en route to Palermo, crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea near the Sicilian island of Ustica, killing all 81 ...

PALERMO, Italy, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- An Italian judicial panel says a missile or near-collision with a military aircraft caused a 1980 Itavia airline crash that killed 81 people. The judicial panel in ...

ROME (AP) — An Italian court has ordered the government to pay €100 million ($137 million) in civil damages to relatives of 81 people killed in a mysterious 1980 airplane disaster. The government said ...