Rome prosecutors drop bid to shelve Ustica air disaster probe after French cooperation
Chief prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi says new cooperation from France opens fresh avenues in the decades-old case.
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Prosecutors in Rome have withdrawn a request to shelve the long-running investigation into the 1980 Ustica air disaster, citing new cooperation from French authorities that has opened additional lines of inquiry.
Chief prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi said the development opens "new prospects" for the decades-old case, which has never been conclusively resolved despite multiple rounds of investigation over more than forty years.
The Ustica disaster, in which an Itavia Airlines flight crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea in June 1980, killing all 81 people on board, has long been the subject of competing theories about its cause.
Italian investigators have periodically sought international assistance in the case, and the latest cooperation from France appears aimed at accessing information previously unavailable to Italian authorities.
No timeline has been given for the next steps in the investigation, which remains one of Italy's most closely watched unresolved cases.
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