Ustica
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Ustica is a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, administravely part of the comune of the same name in the Metropolitan City of Palermo in the autonomous island region of Sicily in southern Italy. It i
View of the town of Ustica
An image of Ustica at sunset
Ustica seen from the ferryboat
A panorama of the Ustica harbour
Itavia Flight 870
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On 27 June 1980, Itavia Flight 870, 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
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…and many of them died from malnutrition and tuberculosis. In the 1950s they were followed by suspected Mafiosi expelled from Sicily. On 27 June 1980, Itavia Flight 870 crashed into the sea off the island while en route to Palermo, killing all 81 people on board. The event became known as the Ustica massacre. The island…
Reconstructed wreckage of the aircraft at the Museum for the Memory of Ustica
I-TIGI, the aircraft involved, seen in April 1980