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His plane crashed onto a taxiway near the runway, destroying a medevac helicopter and fatally injuring its pilot, Captain Kim Strader. Pony 2, the third plane involved in the disaster, was severely damaged from the impact with Pony 1, and crashed beside the runway, exploding in a fireball. Its pilot, Captain Alessio, died on impact.
On 27 June 1980, Itavia Flight 870 (IH 870, AJ 421), a Douglas DC-9 passenger jet en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea between the islands of Ponza and Ustica at 20:59 CEST, killing all 81 occupants on board.
Uganda Airlines Flight 775 was a Boeing 707-338C, registration 5X-UBC, that crashed while attempting to land at Rome-Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy on 17 October 1988. [1] Out of the 52 occupants onboard, 33 were killed. [2] [3] [4]
The new Peacock/Sky TV series is based on the real-life Pan Am Flight 103 that crashed Dec. 21, 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The plane exploded just 38 minutes after take-off and killed all 259 ...
The Italian Air Force said it was investigating whether an aircraft of its acrobatic team struck birds before it crashed near an airport, killing a child on the ground. A 5-year-old girl and her ...
29 May – World's first Pendolino train to enter regular high-speed service between Milan and Rome. [3]28 August – In an air show at the US Ramstein Air Base in Germany, three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending a fireball into the ground.
Aug. 31, 1988: Crews remove one of the first victims of the Delta 1141 crash from the plane’s rear, which had been on fire. Twelve passengers and two flight attendants died in the disaster at ...
30 May – Wisconsin State Fairgrounds (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) – Sixteen people were injured when a stunt plane crashed while performing a transfer of a person on an airplane to moving automobile via a ladder stunt. The ladder became hooked on the automobiles exhaust pipe and lifted the vehicle's rear end and threw it out of control.