Incidents and Accidents
Seven Alitalia flights had been hijacked, and 28 aircraft accidents/incidents involved Alitalia planes. Two Alitalia pilots were killed while acting as passengers during the 1994 A330 test flight. Alitalia actually never purchased the A330, and dedicated two Boeing 767 aircraft to the lost pilots Alberto Nassetti and Pier Paolo Racchetti. In 1983 a hjacked DC-10 Alitalia landed at Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport under orders by hijacker.
| Flight | Date | Aircraft | Location | Description | Injuries | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fatal | Serious | Minor | Uninjured | |||||
| 451 | December 18, 1954 | Douglas DC-6 | New York City, New York | Circled for 2½ hours in fog; during the fourth landing attempt, the plane overshot the runway and crashed | 26 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| December 21, 1959 | Vickers Viscount | Ciampino Airport, Rome | I-LIZT crashed short of the runway at on a training flight exercise in landing with two engines inoperative. Both people on board were killed. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| February 26, 1960 | Douglas DC-7C | Shannon, Ireland | The aircraft stalled and crashed on takeoff for unknown reasons. | 34 | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| 771 | July 7, 1962 | Douglas DC-8 | Sahar International Airport, Mumbai | Controlled flight into terrain | 94 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| March 28, 1964 | Vickers Viscount | Monte Somma, Italy | I-LAKE crashed into Monte Somma, killing all on board. | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 112 | May 5, 1972 | Douglas DC-8 | Palermo, Italy | Crashed due to inclement weather | 115 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4128 | December 23, 1978 | McDonnell Douglas DC-9 | Palermo, Italy Punta Raisi Airport |
Crashed into sea just short of the runway | 107 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| 404 | November 14, 1990 | McDonnell Douglas DC-9 | Zürich | Crashed into a mountain | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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