Aerolinee Itavia

Aerolinee Itavia was an Italian airline based in Rome.

History

Itavia was founded in 1958 in Rome as Società di Navigazione Aerea Itavia and took a year later by the Rome - Urbe Airport, flight operations on domestic routes on. In 1961 one flight operations temporarily, around 1962 to go under the name Aerolinee Itavia back to the start. 1965, the operation was again suspended for financial reasons, for several months.

By 1980 Itavia was mainly on domestic routes with aircraft type Douglas DC -9 ( Series 10 ) operates.

After the ominous plane crash of Ustica on 27 June 1980, the Company introduced in December of the same year, a flight operations, in January 1981 withdrew from the Italian Ministry of Transport and the appropriate license.

Shortly after the crash of Flight 870 was founded with the support of Alitalia, the successor company Aermediterranea. This airline was 1994 in Alitalia.

Fleet

Itavia operation, inter alia, following aircraft types:

  • Cessna 402
  • Douglas DC-3/C-47
  • Douglas DC-9
  • De Havilland Dove
  • De Havilland Heron
  • Fokker F28
  • Handley Page Herald

Incidents

On the evening of June 27, 1980 Itavia flight crashed 870, a Douglas DC-9 of the Italian Society Itavia labeled I- TIGI, north of the Italian island of Ustica on the way from Bologna to Palermo initially unknown causes in the Tyrrhenian Sea. All 81 people on board were killed. Although much evidence for a launch of the machine by any nearby warplanes speak, could never be provided for a thorough investigation.

IATA-Code International Civil Aviation Organization airport code Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport Italy Rome Urbe Airport
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