ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 28171
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| Date: | Sunday 15 December 1929 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: | Nieuport-Delage NiD-641 |
| Owner/operator: | Société Nieuport Astra |
| Registration: | F-AJDA |
| MSN: | 1 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Bir-El-Amar, Gulf of Sirte -
 Libya
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Tunis, Tunisia |
| Benghazi, Libya | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Aircraft was operating a cargo/mail record flight from France to French Indo China (Vietnam) (routed Paris – Marseille – Algiers – Tunis – Tripoli – Benghazi – Cairo – Basra – Agra – Allahabad – Calcutta – Akyab – Yangon – Saigon). The plane, the Nieuport NiD-614 F-AJDA connecting Le Bourget to Saigon left on 14.12.1929. at 04:21. He made several stops in Marseille, Algiers and Tunis *(16:00), then left for Alexandria (via Tripoli and Bengasi). Crashed into a sand dune at Bir-El-Amar, in the Gulf of Sirte, in the night from 15 to 16 DEC when on the Tunis-Tripoli-Benghazi leg. *Bodies and debris were found on a beach by the crew of an Italian ship a few days later 1929. Pilot Edmond Lasalle, radio-operator Mr. Rébard and engineer Mr. Faltot.
Sources:
http://www.coppoweb.com/merson/fr.syrte.php
* https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k632008h/f3.item.zoom
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6319984/f1.item.zoom
** Le Petit Journal 15 December 1929, p3
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 28-Mar-2019 00:05 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 28-Mar-2019 20:21 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 06-Jun-2020 08:49 | TB | Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 06-Jun-2020 18:53 | TB | Updated [Source] |
| 10-Jun-2020 18:30 | TB | Updated [Nature] |
| 10-Jan-2024 19:39 | TB | Updated [Date, Operator, Narrative] |
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