An Italian airline, and the carrier at the centre of one of Britain's best-known airliner encounters. Sunday, 21 April 1991. An Alitalia MD-80 flying from Milan to London Heathrow with 57 people aboard crossed the English coast at 22,000 feet. Below lay Lydd and the army ranges. Captain Achille Zaghetti and his crew reported a missile-like object near Lydd, Kent. The case remains unsolved, and it opened a strange season over southern England, with the Dan-Air Boeing 737 wingless projectile and the Britannia Airways black lozenge near Gatwick soon following.
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