The Ustica massacre is “etched in the conscience of the Italians as a harrowing tragedy, which snatched eighty-one defenseless people from their lives, which threw their families into unspeakable pain, who left the Republic without a single truth capable of fully reconstructing the framework of the circumstances and those responsible “declared the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella on the occasion of the anniversary of the tragedy, which took place on the evening of 27 June 1980 when the DC-9 Itavia H870 plane, flying between Bologna and Palermo, disappeared from radar and sank into the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of Ustica. 81 people died but full light has never been shed on the disaster.