Date: | Wednesday 12 December 1956 |
Time: | 09:00 |
Type: | Vickers 708 Viscount |
Owner/operator: | Air France |
Registration: | F-BGNK |
MSN: | 8 |
Year of manufacture: | 1953 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Dannemois -
France
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Paris-Orly Airport (ORY/LFPO) |
Destination airport: | Reims Airport (RHE/LFSR) |
Narrative:Viscount F-BGNK departed Paris-Orly at 08:49 for a training flight to Reims. The aircraft climbed to an altitude of about 3000 feet, just above the cloud layer and continued VFR to Reims. At 08:58 clearance was requested and given to climb to 5000 feet in order to remain VFR above the cloud layer. A little later eyewitnesses saw the aircraft crash at a steep angle of descent.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A loss of control in flight, the initial cause of which it has not been possible to establish."
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