Accident description
Last updated: 26 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 19 JUN 1957 |
| Type: | Nord 2501F Noratlas |
| Operator: | L'Armée de L'Air |
| Registration: | 68 |
| C/n / msn: | 68 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 2 Bristol Hercules 739 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Bouinane (Algeria)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Blida Airport (DAAB), Algeria |
Flew into a mountainside in fog.
Sources:
» stratisc.org
» The Lewiston Daily Sun - Jun 20, 1957
» The Canberra Times - Jun 21, 1957
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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.
