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Air France Flight 212 was a Boeing 707-328C, registration F-BLCJ, that crashed into the northwestern slope of La Soufrière Mountain, in Guadeloupe on 6 March 1968, with the loss of all 63 lives on board. The aircraft, named "Chateau de Lavoute Polignac", was operating the Caracas–Pointe-à-Pitre sector of Air France's South America route.
 A similar Air France Boeing 707-320C | |
| Occurrence | |
|---|---|
| Date | 5 March 1968 |
| Summary | Controlled flight into terrain |
| Site | La Grande Soufrière, Guadeloupe 16.0°N 61.7°W |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 707-328C |
| Operator | Air France |
| Registration | F-BLCJ |
| Flight origin | Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, Santiago, Chile |
| 1st stopover | Jorge Chávez International Airport, Lima, Peru |
| 2nd stopover | Mariscal Sucre International Airport, Quito, Ecuador |
| 3rd stopover | El Dorado International Airport, Bogotá, Colombia |
| 4th stopover | Simón Bolívar International Airport, Caracas, Venezuela |
| 5th stopover | Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe |
| 6th stopover | Santa Maria Airport, Santa Maria, Azores |
| Last stopover | Lisbon Airport, Lisbon, Portugal |
| Destination | Orly Airport, Paris, France |
| Passengers | 52 |
| Crew | 11 |
| Fatalities | 63 |
| Survivors | 0 |
When air traffic control had cleared the flight deck crew for a visual approach to Le Raizet Airport's runway 11, the crew had reported the airfield in sight. Flight 212 started to descend from flight level 090 (approximately at 9,000 feet (2,700 m)) and passed over Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe at an altitude of about 4,400 feet (1,300 m). As the aircraft continued north-westerly, it crashed into the Grande Découverte mountain, 27.5 kilometres (17.1 mi) south-southwest of Le Raizet Airport and about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the main peak of La Grande Soufrière, at an altitude of 3,937 feet (1,200 m). The site is uphill from Saint-Claude and the Matouba hot springs.
The accident investigators cited the probable cause as a visual approach procedure at night in which the descent was begun from an incorrectly identified point. The aircraft had flown for 33 hours since coming off the Boeing production line, and was on her second revenue service (her maiden passenger flight was the previous day's outbound journey from Paris).[1]
The accident came six years after Air France Flight 117, another Boeing 707, crashed into a mountain further north on the same island while on approach to Point-à-Pitre's Le Raizet airport. Less than two years later, on 4 December 1969, Air France suffered another crash on the same leg of Flight 212 when the aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from Caracas.
References
- Ranter, Harro. "Aircraft accident Boeing 707-328C F-BLCJ Pointe-à-Pitre". aviation-safety.net. Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- Bibliography
- World Accident Summary. Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom). 1974. ISBN 0-903083-44-2.
External links
- Final Accident Report posted at the BEA (France) (in French)
- Air France Flight 212 (1968) at Airdisaster.com[Usurped!] (Archive[Usurped!])
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- [en] Air France Flight 212 (1968)
[fr] Vol Air France 212 (1968)
Le 6 mars 1968, un Boeing 707 du vol Air France 212 s’est écrasé dans le versant nord-ouest de La Soufrière, en Guadeloupe entrainant la mort de toutes les personnes à bord. L'avion, appelé Château de Polignac Lavoute, assurait la liaison Caracas-Pointe-à-Pitre, la route de l'Amérique du Sud d'Air France.[it] Volo Air France 212 (1968)
Il volo Air France 212 era un volo passeggeri di linea internazionale da Santiago del Cile, in Cile, a Parigi, in Francia, con scali intermedi a Lima (Perù), Quito (Ecuador), Bogotà (Colombia), Caracas (Venezuela), Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadalupa, Francia), Santa Maria (Azzorre, Portogallo) e Lisbona (Portogallo). Il 5 marzo 1968, un Boeing 707-320C operante il volo precipitò sulla Grande Soufrière, in Guadalupa, durante l'avvicinamento dall'aeroporto Internazionale di Pointe-à-Pitre. Tutti i 63 a bordo persero la vita.[1][2][ru] Катастрофа Boeing 707 в Гваделупе (1968)
Катастрофа Boeing 707 в Гваделупе (1968) — крупная авиационная катастрофа, произошедшая во вторник 5 марта 1968 года. Авиалайнер Boeing 707-328C авиакомпании Air France выполнял плановый рейс AF212 по маршруту Сантьяго—Лима—Кито—Богота—Каракас—Пуэнт-а-Питр—Санта-Мария—Лиссабон—Париж, но при заходе на посадку в Пуэнт-а-Питре врезался в склон вулкана Суфриер. Погибли все находившиеся на его борту 63 человека — 52 пассажира и 11 членов экипажа.Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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