Thirty-eight first-class officers, a second lieutenant, three officers and two air force non-commissioned officers, united by the same implacable fate, express the absurd balance of one of the most serious deaths that has ever struck the Naval Navy Academy.

That of 3 March had to be a normal settling flight.

The students were enthusiastic about this experience that at the end of the fourth class could have led some of them to a specific choice: to attend piloting courses at the United States Navy.

Flights like these had been made for over twenty years, but a tragic fate had it that just that C130, the "Vega 10", crashed on Monte Serra, near Pisa.

Source: Military Navy