Dakar – Agadir – Casablanca – Alicante – Barcelona – Perpignan – Toulouse

On January 31, 1929 at 07:30 PM, Dakar – Agadir – Casablanca – Alicante – Barcelona – Perpignan – Toulouse experienced a crash involving Latécoère 26, operated by L'Aéropostale, with the event recorded near Azemmour Doukkala-Abda.

The flight was categorized as postal (mail) and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The crew was on his way to France with mail (letters and packets) from South America. The aircraft departed Agadir at 1600LT bound for Casablanca, and overflew Mazagan (El Jadida) at 1915LT. Few minutes later, while cruising along the coast, the single engine aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances in the Atlantic Ocean. SAR operations were initiated but no trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found, and all operations were suspended few days later. Three weeks later, the dead bodies of both crew were found on a beach near Azemmour. Crew: Emile Lécrivain, pilot, Pierre Ducaud, radio navigator.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-AIMU, MSN 674, year of manufacture 1928.