Aviation
Fiumicino departures
Some pictures of aircraft performing scheduled services from Rome – Fiumicino airport, depicted departing from runway 25 on Feb. 5, 2011.
LIRF
Aviation
Alitalia B777 performs emergency landing in Fiumicino
On Feb. 10, an Alitalia B777 “EI-DBK”, with 236 passengers and 6 crew members on board, departed as AZ630 to Miami at 10.00LT (scheduled at 09.20), was compelled to return to Fiumicino 20 minutes after […]
Aviation Safety / Air Crashes
Is spotting at Rome Fiumicino dangerous?
On Jan 18, I went to Fiumicino to watch some aircraft departing from RWY 25. After following the story of the US Air 1549 that performed a successful ditching in the Hudson river shortly after […]
Aviation
An Alitalia B777 makes an emergency landing in Recife
On Sept. 25, an Alitalia B777-200 flying from Rome Fiumicino to Buenos Aires with 295 people on board, performed an emergency landing in Recife, Brasil, for an unspecified technical problem. The passengers were disembarked and […]
non-military aviation
B747-400s, B777s (and an A330) in Fiumicino
After discussing a lot about the safety issues of the B747-400 and B777 fleets, I thought it could be interesting to go to Fiumicino to watch some wide-bodies arriving or departing from Rome airport and […]