Incident Overview
Date: Wednesday 12 December 1956
Aircraft Type: Vickers 708 Viscount
Owner/operator: Air France
Registration Number: F-BGNK
Location: near Dannemois –
ÿ France
Phase of Flight: En route
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Component Affected: AircraftAircraft
Category: Accident
A Viscount F-BGNK experienced a sudden and catastrophic loss of control during a training flight to Reims. The aircraft crashed at a steep angle of descent, resulting in a loss of altitude and subsequent impact.A Viscount F-BGNK experienced a sudden and catastrophic loss of control during a training flight to Reims. The aircraft crashed at a steep angle of descent, resulting in a loss of altitude and subsequent impact.
Description
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, just above the cloud layer and continued VFR to Reims. At 08:58 clearance was requested and given to climb to 5000 feet in order to remain VFR above the cloud layer. A little later eyewitnesses saw the aircraft crash at a steep angle of descent. PROBABLE CAUSE: “A loss of control in flight, the initial cause of which it has not been possible to establish.”
Primary Cause
Loss of control in flight, the initial cause of which it has not been possible to establish.Loss of control in flight, the initial cause of which it has not been possible to establish.Share on:
