The abuse of office charge was no longer valid, due to some changes in legislation, and the other allegations could not be pursued further due to the statute of limitations, as the events in question had occurred more than 15 years prior. For this same reason, action could not be taken against the other two generals, Lamberto Bartolucci and Franco Ferri. All the objects found are contained in a wooden box covered with a black plastic skin.
All the objects found are contained in a wooden box covered with a black plastic skin. I don't think they ordered it not to be published, they just made a decision that they wouldn't publish it.I'm sorry, but Italy is a dreadful place to have an aviation accident. After years of investigation, no official explanation or final report has been provided by the The investigatory phase of the case has suggested that:
A regularly scheduled transit from Guglielmo Marconi Airport in Bologna to Palermo International Airport in Palermo, Sicily, on 27 June 1980, it departed 2 hours behind its schedule at 20:08 CET (19:08 UTC). The court, unable to proceed further, declared the case archived. Other allegations could not be pursued further after the expiration of the In September 2011, a Palermo civil tribunal ordered the Italian government to pay 100 million euros ($137 million) in civil damages to the relatives of the victims for failing to protect the flight, concealing the truth and destroying evidence.On 23 January 2013, the Civil Cassation Court ruled that there was "abundantly" clear evidence that the flight was brought down by a stray In April 2015, an appeals court in Palermo confirmed the rulings of the 2011 Palermo civil tribunal and rejected an appeal by the state attorney.Speculation at the time and in the years since has been fueled in part by media reports, military officials' statements and Fourteen years after the accident, a 1994 joint investigation carried out by the British Major sources in the Italian media have alleged that the aircraft was shot down during a According to the Italian media, documents from the archives of the Libyan secret service passed on to On 18 July 1980, 21 days after the Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 incident, the wreckage of a Libyan MiG-23, along with its dead pilot, was found in the On 27 June 2007, the Museum for the Memory of Ustica was opened in Bologna. Lesser charges against a number of other military personnel were also dropped. In the museum there are also objects belonging to those on board that were found in the sea near the plane.
As an engineer and an investigator I cannot see why anybody would want to consider anything other than the truth.I-TIGI, the aircraft involved in the accident, 1973.High treason charges against Italian Air Force officialsHigh treason charges against Italian Air Force officials A. Frank Taylor (March 1995) "Accident to Itavia DC-9 near Ustica, 27 June 1980: wreckage and impact information & analysis," * A. F. Taylor (1998) "The study of aircraft wreckage: the key to accident investigation," However, the ruling did not acquit them, and they were still alleged to be guilty of treason. During the 1960s it became one the main private airlines of Italy, until its collapse in the early 1980s, following the destruction of Flight 870, also known as the Ustica disaster.Itavia was headquartered in Rome. After years of investigations, no official explanation or final report has been provided by the Italian government. The court, unable to proceed further, declared the case On 7 July 2008 a claim for damages was served to the French President.
According to these sources, the radar shows that one or two Libyan IH 870 was used by air traffic control, while the military radar system used AJ 421
Each loudspeaker describes a simple thought/worry (e.g. There was no theorizing going on.Frank Taylor, a British investigator involved in the third technical inquest, also commented:
All the objects found are contained in a wooden box covered with a black plastic skin. I don't think they ordered it not to be published, they just made a decision that they wouldn't publish it.I'm sorry, but Italy is a dreadful place to have an aviation accident. After years of investigation, no official explanation or final report has been provided by the The investigatory phase of the case has suggested that:
A regularly scheduled transit from Guglielmo Marconi Airport in Bologna to Palermo International Airport in Palermo, Sicily, on 27 June 1980, it departed 2 hours behind its schedule at 20:08 CET (19:08 UTC). The court, unable to proceed further, declared the case archived. Other allegations could not be pursued further after the expiration of the In September 2011, a Palermo civil tribunal ordered the Italian government to pay 100 million euros ($137 million) in civil damages to the relatives of the victims for failing to protect the flight, concealing the truth and destroying evidence.On 23 January 2013, the Civil Cassation Court ruled that there was "abundantly" clear evidence that the flight was brought down by a stray In April 2015, an appeals court in Palermo confirmed the rulings of the 2011 Palermo civil tribunal and rejected an appeal by the state attorney.Speculation at the time and in the years since has been fueled in part by media reports, military officials' statements and Fourteen years after the accident, a 1994 joint investigation carried out by the British Major sources in the Italian media have alleged that the aircraft was shot down during a According to the Italian media, documents from the archives of the Libyan secret service passed on to On 18 July 1980, 21 days after the Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 incident, the wreckage of a Libyan MiG-23, along with its dead pilot, was found in the On 27 June 2007, the Museum for the Memory of Ustica was opened in Bologna. Lesser charges against a number of other military personnel were also dropped. In the museum there are also objects belonging to those on board that were found in the sea near the plane.
As an engineer and an investigator I cannot see why anybody would want to consider anything other than the truth.I-TIGI, the aircraft involved in the accident, 1973.High treason charges against Italian Air Force officialsHigh treason charges against Italian Air Force officials A. Frank Taylor (March 1995) "Accident to Itavia DC-9 near Ustica, 27 June 1980: wreckage and impact information & analysis," * A. F. Taylor (1998) "The study of aircraft wreckage: the key to accident investigation," However, the ruling did not acquit them, and they were still alleged to be guilty of treason. During the 1960s it became one the main private airlines of Italy, until its collapse in the early 1980s, following the destruction of Flight 870, also known as the Ustica disaster.Itavia was headquartered in Rome. After years of investigations, no official explanation or final report has been provided by the Italian government. The court, unable to proceed further, declared the case On 7 July 2008 a claim for damages was served to the French President.
According to these sources, the radar shows that one or two Libyan IH 870 was used by air traffic control, while the military radar system used AJ 421
Each loudspeaker describes a simple thought/worry (e.g. There was no theorizing going on.Frank Taylor, a British investigator involved in the third technical inquest, also commented: