France agrees to reveal to Italy what it knows of the shooting down of a plane in 1980, one of the mysteries of the Cold War

A flight with 81 passengers exploded on the island of Ustica as they crossed into a battle of Libyan and NATO fighters, chasing an apparatus in which they believed that they were travelling Gadafi

Published on RocksNews: 4 Oct 2026, 04:27 UTC
Updated: 4 Oct 2026, 04:35 UTC
Language: English (Original language: Spanish)

France agrees to reveal to Italy what it knows of the shooting down of a plane in 1980, one of the mysteries of the Cold War — Image credit: Franco Origlia (Getty Images)

A flight with 81 passengers exploded on the island of Ustica as they crossed into a battle of Libyan and NATO fighters, chasing an apparatus in which they believed that they were travelling Gadafi