Thirty years after the fiist fatal accident on an A-330 plane
Appointment in the theater to remember the Alitalia pilot Alberto Nassetti
Thirty years have passed since the first fatal accident of an A-330 aircraft. It was June 30, 1994. That day the Italian pilots Alberto Nassetti and Pier Paolo Racchetti were in Toulouse, at the factories of the French aircraft manufacturer. They were supposed to carry out a commercial internship on the plane that the Alitalia company was considering buying, but the plane crashed after 35 seconds, killing the seven people on board.
The journalist Filippo Nassetti, brother of the pilot, will tell Alberto's story in a monologue scheduled for Sunday 30 June at 5:00 pm, at the Teatro degli Arrischianti in Sarteano, in the province of Siena, the city in whose cemetery the deceased pilot is buried in that tragic test. The life of Alberto and many other aviators is also told in the book "Many eagles I have seen in flight. Extraordinary lives of pilots" (Baldini + Castoldi, 2020).
The President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, through a letter from his spokesperson, sent the Nassetti family his feelings of closeness and best wishes for the full success of the initiative in Sarteano. Among others, the deputy director of Tg5 Giuseppe De Filippi will be present. Numerous pilots and professionals from the world of aviation are expected to remember those tragic 35 seconds of flight and reflect on flight safety.
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency