Quattro minuti e quindici secondi dopo. Il DC9 non comunica con Ciampino, even with Palermo. From the radio there is only silence. Rome tries to contact:
"Itavia 870, when ready allowed to 110. Callbacks leaving 290, through 150. Itavia 870 Rome?"
A slight rustling sound like the radio tuned to the evil which only produce discomfort our ears. A silence that worries many that evening in summer. So Ciampino known as Punta Raisi.
"I lost contact with 870. Monitoring, perhaps have it with you?"
The answer is no. Skip one minute and Roma try again. Now call an Air Malta which is a few miles south from Point Condor.
"Air Malta, this is Rome."
"Rome, go ahead, this is Air Malta."
"Okay, Sir. We have 870 Itavia unreported inbround Palermo. Please, please, try to call us for Itavia 870."
"Alitalia 870?"
"Itavia, Sir, Itavia 870."
The pilot of Air Malta asked to call the DC9 and he is running.
"Roger. Itavia 870, 870 Itavia .... This is Air Malta. Do you read? Itavia 870, do you read, do you read?"
So Rome Palermo called again.
"Do me a favor ... all'Itavia 870 ...."
"I have no contact ..."
"I realized ... look if you see him on radar"
"I try, with Moro, let's see if he sees him."
The time 21.14 . Itavia 870 does not respond, vanished into the darkness, vanished from radar, fell in the depths of the sea with its load of people, flight planning, luggage, glasses, dolls, journals, notebooks, calendars, hats, uniforms. And again in mid-truncated speeches, dreams, hopes, anger, disappointment, projects, smiles, kisses, hugs, life suspended. The radar center of Defence of Marsala (Moro), called the Command of Martina Franca.
"There is an India that was to reach 870 hotels in Palermo to 13, did not know more than a fuck."
In those ten minutes, including between the hours of 21.20 and 21.30 The Radar Air Defence of Martina Franca is linked with that of Marsala.
"Well, then, at this point I do not know what to tell you, I hope ...."
"It's not .... it was not seen by you."
"Eh, what we are ...."
"Do you think I need to stop Synadex? "
, "yes, we're stopping."
"Hello, boat?"
The radar is called Barca. E 'to Licola, in the province of Naples. He, too, depends on Martina Franca.
"Yes, we have seen in airway and we did friendley, however, is seeing Oak, said that if he finds that India Hotel 870, tells us something."
"We can confirm that we never checked. No contact. "
By now, it is certain. The DC9 Itavia IH 870, is no longer in heaven, nor earth. E 'became sea and sand down there, down to the Tyrrhenian Sea, just steps away from a Roman ship , with the bow facing a fighter of World War II. In the deepest point of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Everyone knows it, flight controllers and military, secret services, the Minister of Defense and Air Force. Even the politicians. - All except the families of the victims, those who are still waiting at the airport of Palermo, those who surrounded him dell'Itavia the telephone exchanges, the Ministry of Defense, Air Force, Palus and seeking an answer. The time of silence. All they keep that secret jealously. Something that the state can not tell someone who asks questions. So simple that anyone can understand. An explanation. Nothing more. "Why , a plane carrying eighty people regularly leave Bologna, seventy-five minutes after a normal take-off shows no sign of life?
A Lieutenant Colonel of the Flight Information Department, speaking on the phone to the phone with the Colonel Commandant of the Second Department Flight Ciampino.
"News, no. Now we are trying to get some information from the two radars which are in Sicily, Defense radar, right? E ', however, seems to have looked when I said. "
" We hoped that they had followed the tracks, the Itavia below and above the Air Malta, and had taken note of the location where the track was gone dell'Itavia. however, says it's not because they were watching the exercise ( SYNADEX). "
" There was a tutorial? "
" Yes, there was a tutorial. He says, that practices what many see American planes, eh, I was also assuming a collision. "
" Yes, or explosion in flight. "
hours are excited, the phones that connect the various sites and military and defense, are hot.
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