Aerolinee Itavia

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Itavia
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Handley Page Herald of Itavia
IATA code : IH
ICAO code : IH
Call sign : ITAVIA
Founding: 1958
Operation stopped: 1980
Seat: Rome
Home airport : Rome Ciampino Airport
Fleet size: 9
Aims: National and international
Itavia ceased operations in 1980. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Aerolinee Itavia was an Italian airline based in Rome .

Douglas DC-3 I-TAVO of Itavia, 1964

history

Itavia was founded in Rome in 1958 as Società di Navigazione Aerea Itavia and one year later it began operating domestic flights from Rome-Urbe airport . In 1961, the flight operations were temporarily suspended, only to start operations again in 1962 under the name Aerolinee Itavia . In 1965, operations were suspended again for a few months for financial reasons.

Until 1980 Itavia was mainly active on domestic routes with aircraft of the type Douglas DC-9 (series 10).

After the ominous plane crash in Ustica on June 27, 1980, the company ceased flight operations in December of the same year, and in January 1981 the Italian Ministry of Transport also revoked the relevant license.

Shortly after the DC-9 crashed, the successor company Aermediterranea was founded with the support of Alitalia . This company went into 1994 in the Alitalia.

fleet

Itavia operated the following types of aircraft:

Incidents

Itavia's Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship I-TIDE crashed in 1974
Itavia's Douglas DC-9-15 I-TIGI crashed in 1980

At Itavia there were 6 total write-offs of aircraft between 1960 and the end of 1980. 138 people were killed in 4 of them.

  • On October 14, 1960, the De Havilland Heron 2 with the aircraft registration I-AOMU flew into the mountainside of the Capanne on Elba in bad weather. All eleven people on board were killed.
  • On March 30, 1963, the Douglas DC-3 (registration I-TAVI ) flew in bad weather into the mountainside of Monte Vale Rotonote, 85 km southeast of Rome. All eight people on board were killed, including the co-founder and vice president of the company Guido Mancini .
  • On November 4, 1970, a Handley Page Herald (registration I-TIVE ) had an accident while landing on a training flight at Rome-Ciampino Airport when an engine failed. The two pilots, the only occupants of the machine, survived the accident. The badly damaged machine was shut down, used to obtain spare parts and finally scrapped in 1974.
  • On January 1, 1974, the Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship I-TIDE fell too deep when approaching Turin Airport , brushed trees and a building 3.7 km south of it and fell on its back. Of the 42 people on board, 38 were killed.
  • On April 9, 1975, was the start of a Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship ( I-TIDA ) from Bergamo airport to a stall . The aircraft sank back onto the runway and stopped 200 m from the end of the runway. All 31 occupants survived the accident. The machine was a total write-off.
  • On the evening of June 27, 1980, a Douglas DC-9-15 ( I-TIGI ) crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea on Itavia flight 870 north of the Italian island of Ustica on the way from Bologna to Palermo, for an initially unexplained cause. All 81 people on board were killed. Although there are numerous indications that the machine was shot down by fighter planes in the vicinity, a complete investigation could never be achieved.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. jp airline fleets international 1967–1979
  2. ^ Itavia accident statistics , Aviation Safety Network , accessed on August 3, 2018.
  3. ^ Accident report DH.114 Heron I-AOMU , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 19, 2016.
  4. ^ Accident report DC-3 I-TAVI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 23, 2016.
  5. ^ Giacomo Cavoli: Rieti, addio al driver Carlo Mancini: visse l'epopea negli anni '50, vinse anche la Coppa Carotti. In: ilmessaggero.it. January 9, 2020, accessed April 22, 2020 (Italian).
  6. ^ Accident report HP Herald I-TIVE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 23, 2016.
  7. ^ Accident report F28-1000 I-TIDE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 23, 2016.
  8. ^ Accident report F28-1000 I-TIDA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 23, 2016.
  9. ^ Accident report DC-9-15 I-TIGI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 3, 2018.