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Air France Flight 007 crashed on 3 June 1962 while on take-off from Orly Airport. The only survivors of the disaster were two flight attendants; the other eight crew members, and all 122 passengers on board the Boeing 707, were killed. The crash was at the time the worst single-aircraft disaster and the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 707.
All 122 passengers on Air France Flight 007 were killed, along with 8 of 10 crew members, overran the runway on takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris, at 12:29 p.m. local time. Two flight attendants survived. Most of the passengers (106 of 122) were cultural and civic leaders of the Atlanta Art Association, returning home from a tour of Europe.
March 5: Air France Flight 212, a 707-328, crashed at Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe. All 62 passengers and crew on board were killed. April 8: BOAC Flight 712, a 707-465, suffered engine failure on take-off from London Heathrow Airport followed by an engine fire. The plane made an emergency landing back at the airport, but an explosion in the port ...
Air France Flight 007, operated with an Airbus A380, collided with Delta Connection Flight 6293, a Bombardier CRJ 701, while the Airbus was taxiing for takeoff from JFK. [13] None of the passengers or crew members on either airplane were injured.
On 3 June 1962, Air France Flight 007, a chartered Boeing 707 named the Chateau de Sully bound for Atlanta, US, crashed on take-off with 132 people on board; 130 of them were killed. The only survivors were two flight attendants seated in the rear of the plane. The charter flight was carrying home Atlanta's civic and cultural leaders of the day.
An Air France passenger is suing the airline for over $100,000, saying he was injured on a flight. Sofiane Licir said he sustained "serious" injuries when his business-class seat broke during takeoff.
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
A plane carrying 276 Indian passengers took off on Monday for Mumbai, the French interior ministry's local office said, after it was grounded for four days pending investigation into possible ...