Comune in Lombardy, Italy
Bascapè is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy , located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of Milan and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Pavia .
Bascapè borders the following municipalities: Carpiano , Casaletto Lodigiano , Caselle Lurani , Cerro al Lambro , Landriano , Torrevecchia Pia , and Valera Fratta .
History
On October 27, 1962, Enrico Mattei , on a flight from Catania , Sicily to Milan 's Linate Airport , died when his jet airplane , a Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris , crashed in the countryside near Bascapè. Pilot Irnerio Bertuzzi and the American journalist William McHale were also killed with Mattei. Subsequent inquiries officially declared that it was an accident; it is widely believed, however, that Mattei was murdered by sabotage of the airplane.
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