- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | December 21, 1959 |
Time: | 0816 |
Location: | Rome, Italy |
Operator: | Alitalia |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Training |
AC Type: | Vickers 785D Viscount |
Registration: | I-LIZT |
cn / ln: | 378 |
Aboard: | 2 (passengers:0 crew:2) |
Fatalities: | 2 (passengers:0 crew:2) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | Crashed into a hanger during a practice landing. The accident was attributed to a balked landing maneuver carried out below the speed limits for safe directional control of the aircraft during a critical situation that developed in the last phase of the landing in the course of a simulated emergency exercise with two power units inoperative. |
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