Background
On March 28, 1964, Alitalia Flight 45 was involved in an aviation accident. The accident claimed 45 lives.
Wikidata Dataset
This incident is included in the Wikidata aviation-safety dataset, which contains more than three thousand records of aircraft accidents and other aviation occurrences from the entire history of powered and unpowered flight. Researchers cross-reference these records with primary investigative reports to analyze historical safety trends and to identify recurring contributing factors across different eras of aviation. For this accident, the dataset provides the date (March 28, 1964), the operator (Alitalia), the flight number (45), and the number of fatalities (45). The dataset is a resource for studying historical safety patterns and for drawing comparisons across time.