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 The final resting place of an American Second World War fighter pilot has been found by Italian amateur archaeologists near Bologna. https://www.thelocal.it/20160725/italian-amateur-team-finds-final-resting-place-of-us-wwii-pilot Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:41:06 +0200 italian-amateur-team-finds-final-resting-place-of-us-wwii-pilot 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 An Alitalia pilot was forced to abort landing at a London airport on Monday as the jet was battered by gale force winds. https://www.thelocal.it/20160209/alitalia-pilot-aborts-landing-as-uk-storm-bounces-jet-off-runway Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:07:12 +0100 alitalia-pilot-aborts-landing-as-uk-storm-bounces-jet-off-runway Italy's flagship airline Alitalia has changed its rules to ensure there are two people in the cockpit at all times, after French investigators said a Germanwings plane was intentionally downed by a co-pilot. https://www.thelocal.it/20150327/alitalia-brings-in-two-person-cockpit-rule Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:04:03 +0100 alitalia-brings-in-two-person-cockpit-rule An Italian pilot died on Wednesday after his two-seater plane crashed into a restaurant, during a flight to announce the birthday of someone in a Calabrian town. https://www.thelocal.it/20141127/pilot-dies-after-crashing-into-calabria-restaurant Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:38:00 +0100 pilot-dies-after-crashing-into-calabria-restaurant