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The Rome-Fiumicino airport, with official name Intercontinental Airport Leonardo da Vinci (IAT code: FCO, ICAO code: LIRF), also known as Fiumicino International Airport, is the most important airport in Italy with over 30 million passengers in 2006. It was opened in stages between 1956 and 1961 and has since undergone numerous expansion works. Located in Rome Fiumicino and serves. In fact, the original name of the airport was Fiumicino Airport. The airport, renamed in tribute to Leonardo da Vinci airport is a smoke-free. It is one of the hubs of the airline Alitalia next to Milan-Malpensa airport in Milan.
Contents
1 Media
2 Incidents and accidents
3 Airlines and terminals
3.1 Terminal A
3.2 Terminal AA
3.3 Terminal B
3.4 Terminal C
4 groundhandling
5 Security services
6 External Links
7 References
Media [edit] Leonardo da Vinci Intercontinental Airport is located 34 kilometres (21 miles) drive from the historic centre of Rome. The train service is available at the terminal. The Leonardo Express trains provide a direct non-stop service to the Termini Station in Rome with a frequency of two services per hour; local trains depart every 15 minutes, stopping at all stations between the airport and downtown.
Incidents and accidents [edit] December 17, 1973, Flight 110, Pan American World Airways was attacked by Palestinian terrorists. 30 passengers were killed when phosphorus bombs were dropped on the Boeing B707 that was preparing to leaving for Beirut, Lebanon.
On December 27, 1985, at 0815 GMT, four armed men approached the counter of the airline El Al and opened fire with assault rifles and grenades. As a result of this attack 16 people were killed and 99 others wounded, before three of the attackers were killed. The remainder was captured by police.
On April 2, 1986, Flight 840 of Trans World Airlines, which was traveling from the Intercontinental Airport Leonardo da Vinci International Airport Hellinikon (demolished and replaced by the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport) in Athens, Greece suffered explosion a bomb inside it, launching into the air four people and causing their deaths. The plane then landed without problems.
On October 17, 1988, the Uganda Airlines flight 775, which conducted the journey from Gatwick Airport from London to Entebbe in scale with the Leonardo da Vinci Intercontinental Airport, crashed near the runway after two attempts approach. 26 of the 45 passengers and 7 members of the crew died.
On September 7, 2005, an aircraft Ryanair made an approach to the airport in bad weather, during destabilized approximation, the co-pilot had to intervene to launch a late manibora of go-around, after which the pilots decided to deviate Pescara
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