Accident description
Last updated: 20 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 26 JAN 1948 |
| Type: | SNCASE SE.161/P7 Languedoc |
| Operator: | Air France |
| Registration: | F-BCUC |
| C/n / msn: | 29 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 4 Pratt & Whitney R-1830 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | ca 8 km S of Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG) (France)
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| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG/LFPB), France |
| Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG/LFPB), France |
Crashed into furniture factory in the Romainville suburb of Paris. The crew had just shut down an engine during a training flight.
Two workmen in the building were injured.
Sources:
» BAAA-ACRO
» Cairns Post - Wednesday 28 January 1948
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Paris-Le Bourget Airport to Paris-Le Bourget Airport as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
Distance from Paris-Le Bourget Airport to Paris-Le Bourget Airport as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
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.
