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Shortly after take-off from Nice Airport on a scheduled domestic passenger flight to Le Bourget Airport, Paris, the aircraft was seen to bank to the left, roll onto its back and crash about 1 kilometre (1,100 yd) north of the airport. All four crew and 34 passengers on board were killed. [1] The flight had originated in Tunis, Tunisia. [2]
The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on 22 October 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, it approached the station too fast and the driver's application of the train air brake was ineffective ...
The aircraft was a four-engined Lockheed L-749 Constellation piston-engined airliner registered F-BAZZ, construction number 2674, that had first flown in 1951 in the United States and had been delivered to Air France on 18 July 1951. [2] The Constellation had left Orly at 22:00 and was due at Nice at 23:55.
Air France has been in operation since 1933. Its aircraft have been involved in a number of major accidents and incidents. The deadliest accident of the airline occurred on June 1, 2009, when Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330-203, flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean with 228 fatalities.
The 1988 crash of Delta Flight 1141 was the last major commercial accident at Dallas-Fort Worth. Ahead of the 35th anniversary, these Star-Telegram photos of the scene are published for the first ...
Investigators head into the debris field at the site of a commercial plane crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001. The crash is one of four planes that were hijacked as part of a ...
Christian Oliver, best known to TV audiences for playing Brian Keller on NBC’s Saved by the Bell: The New Class, was killed in a plane crash on Thursday. He was 51 years old. Oliver’s two ...
Emirates Flight 521 – Boeing 777-31H – Reg A6-EMW – Flight from Thiruvananthapuram, South India, crash-landed during a routine approach to runway 12L at Dubai International Airport on 3 August 2016 at around 08:37z. The accident currently under investigation, but an incident during the final / go around, caused the plane to crash land ...