Accidents and Incidents
- On March 6, 1967 a Short Brothers SC.7 Skyvan 2-102 operated by Soc Aeralpi crashed while attempting to land in bad weather, crashing into the sea - all 3 on board survived.
- On September 14, 1993, an Italian Air Force Piaggio PD.808, crashed while attempting to land in bad weather killing all 3 on board.
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“The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measures are the hours; morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of nature play through his mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)