Last updated: 16 September 2021
| Status: | |
| Date: | Tuesday 29 December 1953 |
| Time: | 22:19 |
| Type: |  Nord 2501 Noratlas |
| Operator: | L'Armée de L'Air |
| Registration: | 2/F-SDAC |
| MSN: | 2 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 2 Bristol Hercules 739 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10 |
| Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
| Location: | Pic de Costabonne, Pyrénées Mountains ( France)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Mont-De-Marsan Airport (LFBM), France |
The Noratlas transport plane went missing over the Pyrénées Mountains during a flight from Algeria to Mont-De-Marsan Air Base in France.
A search party of Spanish civil guards found the wreckage January 5, 1954.
Sources:
» Aérosteles : Lieux de mémoire aéronautique» L'Unita 31-12-1953
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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.
