Beauvais - Beauvais

On March 18, 1955 at 12:00 AM, Beauvais - Beauvais experienced a crash involving Douglas DC-3, operated by Air France, with the event recorded near Beauvais-Tillé Oise.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

9 people were known to be on board, 9 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 9, crew fatalities: 9, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The crew was conducting a local training flight at Beauvais-Tillé Airport. On takeoff from runway 31, the airplane encountered difficulties to gain height, hit power cables and crashed in a field. The aircraft was destroyed and all nine occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-BAXL, MSN 20047, year of manufacture 1944.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 49.4650°, 2.1092°.