| Date: | Tuesday 29 December 1953 |
| Time: | 22:19 |
| Type: |  Nord 2501 Noratlas |
| Owner/operator: | L'Armée de L'Air |
| Registration: | 2/F-SDAC |
| MSN: | 2 |
| Engine model: | Bristol Hercules 739 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Pic de Costabonne, Pyrénées Mountains -
 France
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Mont-De-Marsan Airport (LFBM) |
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
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 29 March 1959 | F-BGZB | Union Aéromaritime de Transport | 9 | near Boukpayanga |  |
w/o |
| 13 June 1967 | 6414 | Força Aérea Portuguesa | 0 | Xaixai |  |
w/o |
| Forced landing | ||||||
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