Linate Airport disaster
The Linate Airport disaster occurred in Italy at Linate Airport in Milan on the morning of Monday, 8 October 2001. Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 686, a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 airliner carrying 110 people bound for Copenhagen, Denmark, collided on take-off with a Cessna Citation CJ2: 1 business jet carrying four people bound for Paris, France. All 114 people on both aircraft were killed, as well as four people on the ground.The subsequent investigation determined that the collision was caused by a number of nonfunctioning and nonconforming safety systems, standards, and procedures at the airport.: 125 It remains the deadliest accident in Italian aviation history.
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Tangenziale Est, Milan Municipio 4
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Aeroporto di Milano-Linate (Aeroporto Enrico Forlanini)
Tangenziale Est
20138 Milan, Municipio 4
Lombardy, Italy
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