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9th anniversary of Milan-Linate air disaster

Milan , Italy - Memorial initiatives organized in Milan by the foundation "Fondazione 8 ottobre 2001"

Today it is the anniversary of the air disaster occurred at Milan-Linate airport, in which, nine years ago, 118 people died, the worst accident in Italy's aviation story. The morning on October 8, 2001, a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 airplane of SAS airline, while taking off from the runway of the Milan airport, collided with a private Cessna Citation that was on the runway 18/36 by mistake, due to dense...

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Rome, Italy, 10/08/2010 15:18
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