Frankfurt – Nice

On September 22, 1967 at 02:05 AM, Frankfurt – Nice experienced a crash involving Beechcraft 90 King Air, operated by General Air, with the event recorded near Saluzzo Piedmont.

The flight was categorized as charter/taxi (non scheduled revenue flight) and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

6 people were known to be on board, 6 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: 4, passenger fatalities: 4, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The twin engine aircraft was performing a charter flight from Frankfurt to Nice, carrying a crew of two and four passengers, among them the German Industrialist Harald Quandt, owner of BMW. While cruising by night over Italy, the airplane went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed in a mountainous area located southwest of Saluzzo, Piedmont. The aircraft was totally destroyed and all six occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration D-ILNI, MSN LJ-116, year of manufacture 1966.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 44.6446°, 7.4926°.