A former Italian premier contended that a French missile accidentally brought down a passenger jet over the Mediterranean Sea in 1980
Radar traces indicated a flurry of aircraft activity in that part of the skies when the plane went down.
In the aftermath of the crash, French, U.S. and NATO officials denied any military activity in the skies that night..According to Amato, a missile was allegedly fired by a French fighter jet that had taken off from an aircraft carrier, possibly off Corsica’s southern coast.Article content Amato, who is 85, said that in 2000, when he was premier, he wrote to the then presidents of the United States and France, Bill Clinton and Jacques Chirac, respectively, to press them to shed light on what happened. But ultimately, those entreaties yielded “total silence,” Amato said.Article content
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