26 Mar Lockheed C-130A Hercules – 56-0526 Collided with a French Air Force Dassault Super Mystre B2 jet (Nø65); crashed. Initial newspaper reports said all six aboard the Hercu... Continue reading
26 Mar Douglas C-47A-25-DL Dakota C.3 – G-AGHP The Douglas C-47A was flying in a storm and permission to descend from 7500 feet to 5500 feet was requested and granted. Before the cre... Continue reading
26 Mar SNCASE SE.2010 Armagnac – F-BAVH A bomb detonated in the lavatory, causing a large hole in the fuselage. A safe emergency landing was carried out at Lyon-Bron Airport (... Continue reading
26 Mar Douglas C-54-DO (DC-4) – F-BHKY Destroyed by fire. Presumably no one was on board. Continue reading
26 Mar Amiot AAC.1 (Junkers Ju-52) – The aircraft made a forced landing and caught fire. Continue reading
26 Mar SNCASE SE.2010 Armagnac – F-BAVG The first attempt to land at Paris-Orly at night, ILS, monitored by GCA, failed. The crew decided to try a second time with GCA guidanc... Continue reading
26 Mar Vickers 708 Viscount – F-BGNK 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, ju... Continue reading
26 Mar Douglas DC-6B – I-LEAD DC-6B I-LEAD operated on the flight Rome-Paris-Shannon-New York. The aircraft took off from Paris-Orly runway 26. Some 10-15 seconds la... Continue reading
26 Mar Fairchild C-119C Flying Boxcar – 51-2653 Hit the ground short of the runway at Chteauroux Air Base, France. Continue reading