Paris – Dakar – Monrovia – Abidjan

On August 29, 1960 at 06:47 AM, Paris – Dakar – Monrovia – Abidjan experienced a crash involving Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, operated by Air France, with the event recorded near Dakar Dakar Region.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

63 people were known to be on board, 63 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 8, crew fatalities: 8, passengers on board: 55, passenger fatalities: 55, other fatalities: 0.

The aircraft was on its way from Paris-Orly to Abidjan with intermediate stops at Dakar and Monrovia. While approaching Dakar just before sunset, the crew started an approach to runway 01 after declining an ILS approach to runway 30. The approach was abandoned due to low visibility caused by poor weather conditions and the captain decided to follow a holding pattern, waiting for an improvement of the weather conditions. Shortly after 0641LT, the crew started a second attempt to land on runway 01 but after reporting downwind at 0647LT, the airplane disappeared in a rain squall and crashed into the sea some 2,400 meters off the Mamelles lighthouse. The airplane sank by a depth of 40 meters and few debris and dead bodies were found about two hours later. All 63 occupants were killed. Crew: Lucien Boirre, pilot, Jean Roze, copilot, Eugène Schuller, radio operator, Jean-Camille Baty, mechanic, Louis Meleder, mechanic, Geneviève Sabourin, stewardess, François Quiret, steward, Albert-Émile Guepratte, steward.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-BHBC, MSN 4622, year of manufacture 1955.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 14.7328°, -17.2015°.