Paris – Reims

On December 12, 1956 at 09:00 AM, Paris – Reims experienced a crash involving Vickers Viscount, operated by Air France, with the event recorded near Dannemois Essonne.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 5 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 5, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The crew left Paris-Orly Airport at 0849LT on a training flight to Reims, carrying three pilots, one instructor and one controller from the Vilgenis Instruction center. After takeoff, the crew climbed to 3,000 feet and above the cloud layer, continued under VFR. At 0858LT, the captain requested permission to climb to 5,000 feet when control was lost. The airplane entered a dive and crashed in a field located in Dannemois, about 31 km south of Paris-Orly Airport. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and a post crash fire and all five crew members were killed. Crew: Mr. Marchandise, Mr. Brunot, Mr. Colsy, Mr. Heymard, Mr. Nicolai.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-BGNK, MSN 8, year of manufacture 1953.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 48.4539°, 2.4778°.