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Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 12

1979 plane crash in Italy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
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Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 12 was a scheduled flight from Alghero-Fertilia Airport in northwest Sardinia to Rome Fiumicino Airport with a scheduled stop at Cagliari-Elmas Airport in southern Sardinia. On September 14, 1979, the Douglas DC-9 operating the flight struck a rocky mountainside during an attempted landing at Cagliari, resulting in the deaths of all 31 passengers and crew on board. The crash was caused by misinterpreting ATC instructions leading to the flight colliding with terrain.

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“Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 12” enters the record as 1979 plane crash in Italy. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aero, Trasporti and Italiani can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 12” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.