https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Workers at Rome's Fiumicino Airport were forced to push a 36-tonne passenger jet out onto the runway on Sunday, after a technical problem stopped it from taking off. https://www.thelocal.it/20160718/video-rome-airport-workers-give-passenger-jet-a-push-start Mon, 18 Jul 2016 17:16:36 +0200 video-rome-airport-workers-give-passenger-jet-a-push-start An Italian pilot sent a spine-chilling text message to his wife threatening to crash the plane he was about to fly if she left him. https://www.thelocal.it/20160307/italina-pilot-told-wife-hed-crash-plane-if-she-left-him Mon, 07 Mar 2016 11:13:11 +0100 italina-pilot-told-wife-hed-crash-plane-if-she-left-him Two months after being leased at €1 million a month, the swanky jet intended to fly premier Matteo Renzi around the world is grounded - until an Italian Air Force pilot can learn how to fly it. https://www.thelocal.it/20151209/italys-air-force-cant-fly-new-presidential-jet Wed, 09 Dec 2015 17:07:10 +0100 italys-air-force-cant-fly-new-presidential-jet Passengers on a flight from Rome to Milan were shocked when their aircraft was struck by lightning and forced to make an emergency landing in Naples on Wednesday as a freak thunderstorm wreaked havoc in the Italian capital. https://www.thelocal.it/20150819/alitalia-plane-struck-by-lightning Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:13:30 +0200 alitalia-plane-struck-by-lightning Three Algerians forced open the emergency exit of an Alitalia passenger plane while it was heading for take-off at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, slid down the safety slides that were activated and escaped from the airport late on Wednesday night, an Alitalia spokesman said. https://www.thelocal.it/20150514/three-algerians-flee-from-alitalia-jet-at-rome-airport Thu, 14 May 2015 14:20:42 +0200 three-algerians-flee-from-alitalia-jet-at-rome-airport A Germanwings plane on its way to Rome was forced to land at Venice's Marco Polo airport on Friday after two people on board fell sick, a spokeswoman for the company told The Local. https://www.thelocal.it/20150403/germanwings-jet-lands-in-venice-after-two-fall-ill Fri, 03 Apr 2015 19:27:19 +0200 germanwings-jet-lands-in-venice-after-two-fall-ill A Greek fighter jet crashed on Monday on takeoff at a military airbase in Spain housing a Nato training centre for elite pilots, killing 11 people and injuring 13, including nine Italians, the defence ministry said. https://www.thelocal.it/20150127/italians-among-injured-in-greek-fighter-jet-crash Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:29:00 +0100 italians-among-injured-in-greek-fighter-jet-crash There was panic aboard a Spanish low-cost airplane on Wednesday after a fire broke just after the plane, carrying 121 people, landed in Florence https://www.thelocal.it/20140813/vueling-jet-catches-fire-after-landing-in-florence Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:56:00 +0200 vueling-jet-catches-fire-after-landing-in-florence