| Date: | Monday 29 August 1960 |
| Time: | 06:47 |
| Type: |  Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation |
| Owner/operator: | Air France |
| Registration: | F-BHBC |
| MSN: | 4622 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1955 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 16417 hours |
| Engine model: | Wright R-3350 (972TC18DA13) |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 63 / Occupants: 63 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1,6 km off Dakar-Yoff Airport (DKR) -
 Senegal
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Paris-Orly Airport (ORY/LFPO) |
| Dakar-Yoff Airport (DKR/GOOY) | |
| Investigating agency: | BEA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Air France flight 343 left Paris-Orly (France) with destinations Dakar (Senegal), Monrovia (Liberia) and Abidjan (Ivory Coast). The first intermediate stop was to be Dakar. Arriving near Dakar, the crew first carried out a baulked landing procedure on runway 01. After declining an ILS runway 30 approach the pilot decided to enter a holding pattern and wait for improvement of the weather conditions. Shortly after 06:41 another attempt was made to land at runway 01. After reporting downwind at 06:47 the plane disappeared in a rain squall and crashed into the sea at 2400 m from the Mamelles lighthouse. Depth of the sea there was 40 m.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The cause of the accident could not be determined"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
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