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| Date: | Sunday 2 August 1936 |
| Time: | 06:00 LT |
| Type: | Wibault 283.T12 |
| Owner/operator: | Air France |
| Registration: | F-ANBL |
| MSN: | 15 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Saint-Amans-Soult -
 France
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Toulouse-Montaudran Airport, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne |
| Perpignan-La Llabanère Airport, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Aircraft was operating a Cargo/mail flight (aircraft routed Paris–Toulouse-Dakar–Natal–Rio de Janeiro). Crew left Paris-Le Bourget Airport at 02:45 LT for a mail flight to Rio de Janeiro with intermediate stops in Toulouse, Dakar and Natal. Around 05:45 LT, crew informed ATC that he was flying between Toulouse and Perpignan and the three engine aircraft hit a mountain slope near its top and was destroyed by impact forces. The pilot of a French Air Force fighter localised the debris at 14:30 LT at an altitude of 1,000 metres near the village of Albine, in the region of Mazamet, southeast of Castres. All three occupants were killed.
Sources:
World Directory of Airliner Crashes/Terry Denham
https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/f-aaaa.pdf
https://www.passionair1940.fr/Armee%20de%20l%27Air/Appareils/Transport/Wibault-283T/EN-Historiques-2.htm
https://www.aerosteles.net/stelefr-albine-wibaultcrash
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 28-Jan-2014 14:28 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 05-Apr-2019 21:43 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Total occupants, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 30-Mar-2020 18:19 | TB | Updated [Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
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