Air France Flight 406

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Last stopover	Marseille-Marignane Airport, Marseille, France (did not arrive)
Destination	Paris, France
Passengers	69
Crew	9
Fatalities	78
Survivors	0

Air France Flight 406 was a Lockheed L-1649 Starliner that crashed in French Algeria on May 10, 1961, after a bomb exploded on board. All 78 passengers and crew on board were killed. It was the deadliest aviation disaster involving a Lockheed Starliner.^[1]

Flight

Air France Flight 406 was an international scheduled

After taking off from Fort Lamy, and while cruising at an altitude of approximately 20,000 feet (6,100 m), the Starliner broke up after its empennage failed. The plane crashed to earth approximately 35 miles (56 km) from Edjele oilfield, near the Libya border.^[2] All aboard Flight 406 were killed.^[3]

Eighteen children were among the dead. Among them were the three young children of the United States

The most probable cause of Air France Flight 406 crashing was sabotage with a nitrocellulose explosive.^[5]

See also

• List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
• UTA Flight 772, which was bombed over a desert
• Air France Flight 2005, another Air France aviation disaster that took place on the continent of Africa in 1961

References

External links

• Air France Flight 406 at Airdisaster.com^[usurped]