Airplane Crash - Rome, Italy 12/21/1959
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Rome, Italy
| Date | 12/21/1959 |
| Time | 07:16 |
| Location | Rome, Italy |
| Operator | Alitalia |
| Route | Training |
| Type | Vickers 785D Viscount |
| Registration | I-LIZT |
| Cn/In | 378 |
| Aboard | 2 |
| Fatalities | 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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