ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333729
Date: | Monday 29 August 1960 |
Time: | 06:47 |
Type: | Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation |
Owner/operator: | Air France |
Registration: | F-BHBC |
MSN: | 4622 |
Year of manufacture: | 1955 |
Total airframe hrs: | 16417 hours |
Engine model: | Wright R-3350 (972TC18DA13) |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 63 / Occupants: 63 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 1,6 km off Dakar-Yoff Airport (DKR) -
Senegal
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Paris-Orly Airport (ORY/LFPO) |
Destination airport: | Dakar-Yoff Airport (DKR/GOOY) |
Investigating agency: | BEA |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Air France flight 343 left Paris-Orly (France) with destinations Dakar (Senegal), Monrovia (Liberia) and Abidjan (Ivory Coast). The first intermediate stop was to be Dakar. Arriving near Dakar, the crew first carried out a baulked landing procedure on runway 01. After declining an ILS runway 30 approach the pilot decided to enter a holding pattern and wait for improvement of the weather conditions. Shortly after 06:41 another attempt was made to land at runway 01. After reporting downwind at 06:47 the plane disappeared in a rain squall and crashed into the sea at 2400 m from the Mamelles lighthouse. Depth of the sea there was 40 m.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The cause of the accident could not be determined"
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | BEA |
Report number: | final report |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 2 years and 3 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
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