Not too surprising, that’s only 5 years before the French government did a bit of lethal state-sponsored terrorism over here because some people dared to suggest that nuking the pacific is a cunt move.
There’s a museum of the incident with a reconstruction of the plane crash in Italy. Absolutely worth a visit. https://www.inbologna.it/the-museum-for-memory-of-ustica-in-bologna.html
It was known for a long time that the plane was downed by a missile, with the French being suspects.
Oopsie, war crime
Look, they said sorry okay.
Wait…
In the aftermath of the crash, French, U.S. and NATO officials denied any military activity in the skies that night.
Anyways. All is forgiven between friends.
Former two-time Premier Giuliano Amato appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron to either refute or confirm his assertion about the cause of the crash on June 27, 1980, which killed all 81 persons aboard the Italian domestic flight.
Twas an honest mistake.
That’s why pencils come with erasers.
