Italian prosecutors win bid to revoke shelving of Ustica air disaster probe
Rome's chief prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi says new cooperation with France has opened "new prospects" in the decades-old case.
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Italian prosecutors have won a request to revoke a previous decision to shelve the investigation into the 1980 Ustica air disaster, according to ANSA.
Rome's chief prosecutor, Francesco Lo Voi, said cooperation with French authorities had opened "new prospects" in the case, though further details of what this cooperation involves were not specified.
The Ustica disaster, in which an Itavia DC-9 passenger aircraft crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea in 1980, has remained one of Italy's most contested unresolved air disasters, with investigations into its cause continuing for decades.
The decision to revoke the shelving order means prosecutors can continue to pursue new lines of inquiry rather than closing the case, though it was not stated what specific evidence or leads prompted the move.
No timeline was given for how the renewed investigation might proceed.
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