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Pages in category "Alitalia accidents and incidents" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
The aircraft, flown as Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870, was a Douglas DC-9-15, serial number 45724, registered as I-TIGI.At the time of the accident, it had flown for 29544 hours over 45032 flights. [3]
Alitalia accidents and incidents (8 P) Pages in category "Alitalia" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Alitalia Flight 618 was an accident involving a Douglas DC-7C of the Italian airline Alitalia in Shannon, Ireland, on 26 February 1960. Of the 52 people on board, only 18 survived with serious injuries.
The uneven distribution of the passengers in their seats was also found and concluded as one of its primary factors of the cause of the accident. Aeroflot Flight 498, the Ilyushin Il-14 crashed into mountainous terrain near Ust-Barguzin on 14 June 1981, killing 48 people in the worst accident involving an Ilyushin Il-14.
Eight Alitalia flights were hijacked, and 29 aircraft accidents or incidents involved Alitalia planes. [147] Two Alitalia pilots, Alberto Nassetti and Pier Paolo Racchetti, were killed while acting as passengers during the 1994 A330 test flight. [148] Alitalia dedicated two Boeing 767 aircraft to the lost pilots. [citation needed]
The aircraft was first delivered to Aero Trasporti Italiani, [citation needed] a subsidiary of Alitalia and was transferred to Alitalia in October 1988. According to investigators, the aircraft had accumulated more than 43,400 cycles and also stated that the aircraft had been inspected 10 days prior to the accident. [2]
Flight 1553 departed Cagliari for an 85-minute flight to Genoa on 25 February 1999, operated by Minerva Airlines on behalf of Alitalia, with a crew of four on board. [2] The aircraft was under the command of 35-year-old Captain Alessandro Del Bono, an experienced pilot with 6,000 flight hours, 2,000 of which were on the Dornier 328.