Massacre Over the Mediterranean (Season 12 Episode 7 of 10): The explosion of Itavia Flight 870 in 1980. Air Crash Investigation airs on National Geographic Channel HD at 9:00 AM, Friday 12 April. The explosion of Itavia Flight 870 in 1980
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Ex-Italian PM Giuliano Amato called on France's Emmanuel Macron to confirm or refute the claim, suggesting the jet was downed "in complicity with the Americans."
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A former Italian prime minister today stunned the world after claiming a French air force missile shot down an airliner in 1980, killing 81 people in a failed
ROME (Sputnik) - Former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato has accused France and the United States of responsibility for the mysterious 1980 passenger plane crash near Ustica Island off Sicily in the Mediterranean, saying Paris and Washington may have been attempting to assassinate late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The incredible tale of Flight 870, Italian aviation's darkest secret
What happened to Flight 870 to pluck it so brutally from the sky 40 years ago?
The reassembled wreckage of the Itavia plane
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It is no grand overstatement to say that Italy has endured a terrible 2020. It was the first European epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic; it has been one of the countries worst hit by the virus – with, to date, more than 65,000 deaths. So there should be scant surprise that a major anniversary of one of its saddest stories passed almost without comment a few months ago. In a year of tragedy, who needs to scratch at old scars and dwell on historic sorrows? And yet, there will have been plenty of Italians who will have looked to the sky amid the warmth of mid-summer, and cast their minds back 40 years to the events of June 27 1980. Or, at least, to what little they definitively know about that dreadful day.