Cagliari – Rome

On January 26, 1953 at 11:44 AM, Cagliari – Rome experienced a crash involving Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3), operated by Linee Aeree Italiane - LAI, with the event recorded near Cagliari Sardinia.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a mountains crash site.

19 people were known to be on board, 19 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 3, passengers on board: 16, passenger fatalities: 16, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. Few minutes after its takeoff from Cagliari-Elmas Airport, while climbing, the airplane went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed on the Mt Sinnai located 15 km northwest of the airfield. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and all 19 occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration I-LAIL, MSN 4308, year of manufacture 1941.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 39.2172°, 9.1133°.