ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334573
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| Date: | Wednesday 12 December 1956 |
| Time: | 09:00 |
| Type: |  Vickers 708 Viscount |
| Owner/operator: | Air France |
| Registration: | F-BGNK |
| MSN: | 8 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1953 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Dannemois -
 France
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Paris-Orly Airport (ORY/LFPO) |
| Reims Airport (RHE/LFSR) |
Viscount F-BGNK departed Paris-Orly at 08:49 for a training flight to Reims. The aircraft climbed to an altitude of about 3000 feet, just above the cloud layer and continued VFR to Reims. At 08:58 clearance was requested and given to climb to 5000 feet in order to remain VFR above the cloud layer. A little later eyewitnesses saw the aircraft crash at a steep angle of descent.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A loss of control in flight, the initial cause of which it has not been possible to establish."
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