Cossiga blamed the loss of Itavia Flight 870 , a passenger jet that crashed in 1980 with the loss of all 81 people on board , on a missile fired from a French Navy aircraft . On 23 January 2013 Italy 's top criminal court ruled that there was " abundantly " clear evidence that the flight was brought down by a missile
Itavia Flight 870
Itavia Flight 870
Francesco Cossiga