31-01-2013, 09:48 PM
Carsten - excellent find, thank you.
Here's the full English language article in The Guardian:
This begs a fundamental question.
Who had the Power to keep a mass fatality plane crash out of the newspapers and TV news bulletins?
Who could ensure this tragedy was effectively written out of history, that this crime avoided judicial scrutiny, for over three decades?
My provisional answer:
NATO.
Here's the full English language article in The Guardian:
Quote:Italy: Ustica plane crash mystery blamed on stray missile
Italian court says 'abundant' evidence points to cause of 1980 tragedy that killed 81 people en route from Bologna to Palermo
Associated Press
guardian.co.uk, Monday 28 January 2013 19.58 GMT
The remains of the Itavia airliner, kept at a military base near Rome. Photograph: Bruno Mosconi/AP
Italy's top criminal court has ruled there is "abundantly" clear evidence that a stray missile caused an Italian passenger jet to crash near Sicily in 1980, killing all 81 people on board.
Quoting from the Rome ruling, the Italian news agency LaPresse said the court had upheld a Palermo appeal ruling that Italian radar systems had failed adequately to protect the skies, and Italy must compensate the victims' families.
What caused the Itavia DC-9 to crash during a flight from Bologna to Palermo has been one of Italy's enduring mysteries.
Some claimed a bomb had exploded; others contended the jet had got caught in the crossfire of a military aerial dogfight, with a Libyan plane possibly the target. French, US and Nato officials denied military activity in the skies that night.
Itavia Airlines flight 870 took off from Bologna bound for Palermo with 81 passengers and crew aboard. An hour into the flight, it disappeared from the radar screens. The last message received from the pilot was a routine call to ground control, informing them that he was about to start his descent, followed by an exclamation of surprise, which was abruptly cut short.
A few hours later, wreckage from the DC-9 was spotted in the Tyrhennian Sea, off the island of Ustica, near Sicily. There were no survivors.
Many Italians have since said the cause of the crash, which has been the subject of a film, a museum display and numerous books, was covered up for security or military reasons.
This begs a fundamental question.
Who had the Power to keep a mass fatality plane crash out of the newspapers and TV news bulletins?
Who could ensure this tragedy was effectively written out of history, that this crime avoided judicial scrutiny, for over three decades?
My provisional answer:
NATO.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war