Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 20 FEB 1948 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47-DL |
| Operator: | Aerea Teseo |
| Registration: | I-REGI |
| C/n / msn: | 4312 |
| First flight: | 1942 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 7 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 10 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Collesalvetti (Italy) |
| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Florence-Peretola Airport (FLR/LIRQ), Italy |
| Roma-Ciampino Airport (CIA/LIRA), Italy |
The flight Florence-Roma was to make an unscheduled stop at Pisa to fly some passengers there who had been stranded the day before due to a mechanical defect of their plane.
The pilot chose to fly the short Florence-Pisa leg keeping the aircraft below the cloud base. Presumably the weather got suddenly worse, and the plane entered the clouds at low level. The pilot drifted briefly from the route and the plane crashed into a hill.
Sources:
» 1945-1960 I trasporti aerei in Italia dalla guerra all'era del getto / Paolo Gianvanni
» Leonardo Ferrero
» Marco Riva
Photos
Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Florence-Peretola Airport to Roma-Ciampino Airport as the crow flies is 249 km (156 miles).
Distance from Florence-Peretola Airport to Roma-Ciampino Airport as the crow flies is 249 km (156 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
