- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: December 21, 1959
Time: 0816
Location: Rome, Italy
Operator: Alitalia
Flight #: ?
Route: Training
AC Type: Vickers 785D Viscount
Registration: I-LIZT
cn / ln: 378
Aboard: 2   (passengers:0  crew:2)
Fatalities: 2   (passengers:0  crew:2)
Ground: 0
Summary: Crashed into a hanger during a practice landing. The accident was attributed to a balked landing maneuver carried out below the speed limits for safe directional control of the aircraft during a critical situation that developed in the last phase of the landing in the course of a simulated emergency exercise with two power units inoperative.
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