Renato Alessandrini
Renato Alessandrini was an Italian explorer who perished during the polar expedition of the airship Italia.
Biographical notes
Alessandrini was born in Rome. From 1914 he worked as rigger at the Stabilimento Costruzioni Aeronautiche, an aircraft factory of the Italian Army Engineers in Rome. Then, after the World War I, he worked at the airport of Ciampino where Italian military airships were assembled and equipped.North Pole
Alessandrini participated as rigger and helmsman to the first two historic airship flights to the North Pole, being part of the crew of the which was the first airship to fly over the North Pole on May 12, 1926, and the first aircraft to fly over the polar ice cap between Europe and America, and also of the, which made three flights over unexplored arctic regions and flew over the pole on May 24, 1928.The date of Alessandrini's death is not known with certainty; he was lost on May 25, 1928, when the Italia crashed on the Arctic ice during its flight back from the North Pole.