Nine years have passed since an Italian-owned McDonnell Douglas DC-9 mysteriously crashed into the sea off the Sicilian island of Ustica, killing 81 people. But the tragedy continues to haunt. For years, theories about the cause have centered on poor airline maintenance or bombs.
Last week a 700-page reconstruction by an investigating magistrate pointed to another culprit: an air-to-air military missile. The evidence, as reported by the Italian press: the fuselage and several bodies recovered from the bottom of the Tyrrhenian Sea showed traces of a chemical used solely in high- powered missiles.
Defense Minister Valerio Zanone promptly stated he had...
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