Italy's WORST Air Crash | Collision on the Runway | Linate Airport Disaster

🟢 Join the Patreon to support the channel! 👉   / greendotaviation  

-----

On October 8th, 2001, the worst air accident in Italian history occurred at Milan’s Linate airport in the North of Italy. What makes this crash particularly galling is how predictable and preventable it was. This accident was not a result of a series of unfortunate coincidences, or of a chance failure. Rather, it was the logical culmination of years of complacency, and a reckless attitude to safety by the Italian airport authorities.

This episode investigates the causes behind this entirely predictable and preventable crash.

Publicly available sources are used to piece together what took place. For a full account of the incident, read the Final Report, published in 2004.

-----
Congratulations to Fabio Valentinuzzi for correctly guessing which incident this episode would cover in a recent community post.
——

All music licensed through Epidemic Sound

Final Report:
https://reports.aviation-safety.net/2...

Picture of Accident aircraft by Alexander Jonsson (GFDL 1.2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licen... or GFDL 1.2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licen..., via Wikimedia Commons

Airport Map by Pikappa at Italian Wikipedia (original author of the Italian version)Attilios at en.wikipedia (translated into English), CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b..., via Wikimedia Commons

----

00:00 Introduction
00:43 SAS flight details
01:53 Cessna Citation details
02:37 Linate's technology
03:28 Push and start, taxi
05:55 Takeoff
09:35 Aftermath and investigation
11:16 Illegal landing
11:55 A history or recklessness