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A former Italian premier, in an interview published on Saturday, contended that a French air force missile accidentally brought down a passenger jet over the Mediterranean Sea in 1980 in a failed bid to assassinate Libya's then leader Moammar Gaddafi. Former two-time Premier Giuliano Amato appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron to either refute or confirm his assertion about the cause of the crash on June 27, 1980, which killed all 81 persons aboard the Italian domestic flight.
FranceLibyaUsticaSiciliaItalyTripoliTarabulusRomeLazioSicilyMediterranean-seaOceans-general-In 1980, a plane crash over the Mediterranean Sea killed 81 people. To this day, the cause is officially unclear. Former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato is now blaming France for the disaster. Amato argued that the plane had been hit by an errant French missile. The original plan was to kill the then Libyan ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi on board a fighter jet on board the DC9. The plane of the airline Itavia had crashed on June 27, 1980 near the small Italian island of Ustica.
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