Bordeaux – Montluçon – Lyon – Geneva

On September 18, 1929 at 07:45 PM, Bordeaux – Montluçon – Lyon – Geneva experienced a crash involving Nieuport-Delage NiD-390/391, operated by Compagnie Aérienne Française, with the event recorded near Sainte-Agathe-la-Bouteresse Loire.

The flight was categorized as postal (mail) and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

1 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 1 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The pilot, sole on board, was completing a mail flight from Bordeaux to Geneva with intermediate stops in Montluçon and Lyon. On the leg from Montluçon to Lyon-Bron Airport, the aircraft caught fire in flight. The pilot attempted an emergency landing in an open field located in Sainte-Agathe-la-Bouteresse. Upon landing, the single engine airplane struck a ditch and came to rest upside down. The pilot Duperiez was injured and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-AIVN, MSN 03, year of manufacture 1928.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 45.7342°, 4.0554°.