ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 342341
Date: | Thursday 24 September 1936 |
Time: | |
Type: | CANT Z.506 |
Owner/operator: | Ala Littoria |
Registration: | I-RODI |
MSN: | 301 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 10 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | off Benghazi -
Libya
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Engine fire, struck ship mast during attempt to land, then sunk. Only radio operator escaped.
The airplane operated on a flight from Asmara to Rome, carrying mail of the Italian troops at war in Ethiopia.
Sources:
Air mail cover Pre-War register from Italy (Air-Britain) Location
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