Tuninter Suspended from Italian Airports

The Italian Civil Aviation Authority has suspended Tuninter from flying to Italy after an investigation found out that a wrongly installed fuel gauge was the cause of last month's ATR crash off Palermo, Associated Press reports. Tuninter operates at least two flights from Malta to Tunis on a weekly basis.

From yahoo.com news:
"The Civil Aviation Authority on Wednesday suspended a Tunisian airline from operating in Italy after an investigation found that one of its planes went down off Sicily last month because the wrong type of fuel gauge had been installed.

The Tuninter ATR-72 hit the water near Palermo on Aug. 16, killing 16 people, after the plane ran out of fuel because the gauge was the wrong model and did not show that the tanks were nearly empty, according to ANSV, the Italian national agency for flight safety. The Civil Aviation Authority ENAC acted on the agency's recommendation.

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ENAC said it was suspending authorization for Tuninter to operate in Italy immediately and it asked the European Aviation Safety Agency to carry out urgent checks on procedures for the installation of fuel gauges on all ATR-42 and ATR-72 planes"