Date: | Monday 12 June 1950 |
Time: | 09:00 |
Type: | Junkers Ju-52/3m |
Owner/operator: | L'Armée de L'Air |
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Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 16 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | within Madagascar -
Madagascar
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Antananarivo-Arivonimamo Air Base (TNR/FMMA) |
Destination airport: | Tamatave Airport (TMM/FMMT) |
Narrative:A Junkers Ju-52 of the French Air Force went missing during a domestic flight in Madagascar. Last radio contact was 32 minutes before it was scheduled to land at Tamatave, at 09:30.
Nine people survived the crash and were rescued after about three weeks in the tropical forest after two survivors walked for more than two weeks and found assistance from a natives village.
Sources:
El Siglo de Torreon 14 June 1950, p1
St. Petersburg Times - Jun 14, 1950 Alain Truchat
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