Books, presentation of “Twenty-sixth floor” by Tiziana Gazzini in Milan

Thursday 27 October, at 5.30 pm, at the Sala del Grechetto in Corso di Porta Vittoria in Milan, presentation of the book ‘Twenty-sixth floor’ by Tiziana Gazzini. Paolo Mamo and Neva Sbrissa, witness of the facts told in the book, will talk with the author. Tommaso Sacchi will speak. The book is dedicated to Annamaria Rapetti and Alessandra Santonocito, two lawyers from the Lombardy Region, who were killed by the small plane that crashed into the Pirelli Skyscraper twenty years ago. A wound that the city of Milan still remembers. Annamaria Rapetti and Alessandra Santonocito are forty years old, they are brilliant lawyers at work in their offices on the 26th floor of the Pirelli Skyscraper. At 5.47 pm on April 18, 2002, the Rockwell Commander 112TC tourist plane crashes into the building, the point of impact on the twenty-sixth floor. Alessandra and Annamaria die overwhelmed by the explosion and the pilot also loses his life. Seventy were wounded. The plane crash comes 7 months after the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York. Media attention is immediately very high. Several hypotheses: terrorist attack also in Milan, pilot’s suicide, accident. Twenty-sixth floor meticulously reconstructs the moment and the consequences of the impact with unpublished testimonies, but it is not a counter-investigation into the accident and the controversial figure of the pilot of the plane . The protagonists of the book are Alessandra and Annamaria and their regular and precious lives, torn in the most irregular of ways. Two exemplary stories that remind us how every interrupted life brings with it inestimable damage.