Ajaccio - Nice

On September 11, 1968 at 10:34 AM, Ajaccio - Nice experienced a crash involving Sud-Aviation SE-210 Caravelle, operated by Air France, with the event recorded near Antibes Alpes-Maritimes.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

95 people were known to be on board, 95 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 6, crew fatalities: 6, passengers on board: 89, passenger fatalities: 89, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. Following an uneventful flight from Ajaccio, the crew started the descent to Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport when the pilot sent a brief mayday message, saying 'fire on board, request urgent landing'. Few second later, the airplane went into a dive and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea some 40 km off Antibes. Few debris were found on water surface and none of the 95 occupants survived the crash.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-BOHB, MSN 244, year of manufacture 1968.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 43.6015°, 7.0878°.