Santiago de Chile – Caracas – Pointe-à-Pitre – Lisbon – Paris

On December 3, 1969 at 06:05 PM, Santiago de Chile – Caracas – Pointe-à-Pitre – Lisbon – Paris experienced a crash involving Boeing 707, operated by Air France, with the event recorded near Caracas-Maiquetía-Simón Bolívar Vargas.

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

62 people were known to be on board, 62 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 21, crew fatalities: 21, passengers on board: 41, passenger fatalities: 41, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is terrorism act, hijacking, sabotage. Three minutes after takeoff from Maiquetía-Simon Bolivar Airport, while climbing to a height of 3,000 feet by night, the aircraft went out of control, nosed down and plunged into the sea about 5 km offshore. The wreckage sank by a depth of 50 meters and all 62 occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-BHSZ, MSN 18459/335, year of manufacture 1963.