- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | May 10, 1961 |
Time: | 0112 |
Location: | Ghadames, Algeria |
Operator: | Air France |
Flight #: | 406 |
Route: | Fort Lamy, Chad - Marseilles, France |
AC Type: | Lockheed 1649A Starliner |
Registration: | F-BHBM |
cn / ln: | 1027 |
Aboard: | 78 (passengers:69 crew:9) |
Fatalities: | 78 (passengers:69 crew:9) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | While en route from Fort Lamy, Chad to Marseilles, France, the airliner crashed and burned in the Sahara Desert on the Algeria / Libya border. Detonation of a nitrocellulose bomb. |
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