Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 06 JAN 1947 |
| Type: |  Amiot AAC.1 (Junkers Ju-52) |
| Operator: | Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux - TAI |
| Registration: | F-BBYK |
| C/n / msn: | AAC231 |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Mont Ventoux (France)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Marseille-Marignane Airport (MRS/LFML), France |
| Lyon (unknown airport), France |
Damaged beyond repair after it flew into the snowy mountain slope of Mont Ventoux at a height of about 1800 m.
The transport plane operated on a cargo flight from Casablanca, Morocco to Lyon, France, with en route stops at Oran, Algeria and Marseille.The flight departed Marseille at 13:42. Weather along the route was poor with low clouds at 200 m and a wind that differed in direction and speed to the wind that had been forecast.
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» Le rendez-vous avec le Géant de Provence, le Mont Ventoux, du 06 JAN 1947
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
