Air disaster

2001 Linate Airport runway collision

8 Oct 2001 · 45.45° N, 9.28° E

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When
8 Oct 2001
Kind
Air disaster
Coordinates
45.45° N, 9.28° E
Description
2001 collision of an airliner and a business jet at Milan Linate Airport
Deaths
118

2001 Linate Airport runway collision

2001 runway collision in Italy

Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 686, a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 airliner carrying 110 people bound for Copenhagen, Denmark, collided on take-off with a Cessna Citation CJ2 business jet carrying four people bound for Paris, France, on 8 October 2001 at Linate Airport in Milan, Italy. All 114 people on both aircraft were killed, as well as four people on the ground.

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