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| Date: | Tuesday 22 January 1957 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47B-5-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | L'Armée de L'Air |
| Registration: | 14655/F-RAVM |
| MSN: | 26100/14655 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Vall de Núria, Pyrénées Mountains -
 Spain
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Algiers-Maison Blanche Airport (ALG/DAAG) |
| Toulouse (unknown airport) |
Flew into the side of Pic de Noucreus, a 2,799 m mountain on the French/Spanish border.
Sources:
La Vanguardia 24-1-1957, 25-1-1957
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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