On 27 June 1980, Itavia Flight 870 (IH 870, AJ 421), a McDonnell Douglas
DC-9 passenger jet en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, crashed into
the Tyrrhenian Sea between the islands of Ponza and Ustica, killing all
81 people on board. Known in Italy as the Ustica massacre ("strage di
Ustica"), the disaster led to numerous investigations, legal actions and
accusations, and continues to be a source of controversy, including
claims of conspiracy by the Italian government and others. The Prime
Minister of Italy at the time, Francesco Cossiga, attributed the crash to
a missile fired from a French Navy aircraft, despite contrary evidence
presented in a 1994 report. On 23 January 2013, Italy's top criminal
court ruled that there was "abundantly" clear evidence that the flight
was brought down by a missile.
The Cavalese cable car disaster of 1998, also called the Strage del Cermis ("Massacre at Cermis") occurred on 3 February 1998, near the Italian town of Cavalese, a ski resort in the Dolomites some 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Trento. Twenty people died when a United States Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler aircraft, while flying too low, against regulations, in order for the pilots to "have fun" and "take videos of the scenery", cut a cable supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway.
Il 3 febbraio di 14 anni fa un aereo militare Usa spezzò il cavo di una funivia uccidendo 20 persone. Ora uno dei marine che erano ai comandi ammette che quel volo era una sorta di gita per divertirsi. E che subito prima dell’incidente stava facendo riprese panoramiche con la sua videocamera. In un nastro …
Con Strage dell'Istituto Salvemini si fa riferimento a un disastro aereo avvenuto a Casalecchio di Reno il 6 dicembre 1990, in cui un aereo militare Aermacchi MB-326 cadde su un istituto tecnico causando la morte di dodici studenti e il ferimento di altre 88 persone.