Buenos Aires – Montevideo – Natal – Recife – Dakar – Casablanca – Alicante – Barcelona – Perpignan – Toulouse

On May 10, 1930 at 06:20 AM, Buenos Aires – Montevideo – Natal – Recife – Dakar – Casablanca – Alicante – Barcelona – Perpignan – Toulouse experienced a crash involving Latécoère 28, operated by L'Aéropostale, with the event recorded near Buenos Aires Buenos Aires City.

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

5 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 1 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 80.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 3, passenger fatalities: 2, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. Few minutes after takeoff from Buenos Aires, while cruising at night, the crew encountered poor visibility due to foggy conditions. The pilot decided to reduce his altitude to maintain a visual contact with the water surface when the airplane hit a wave, flipped over and crashed in the Rio de la Plata. A passenger was seriously injured while four other occupants were killed. Crew: Élisée Negrin, pilot, René L. Pruneta, radio operator. Passengers: Julien Pranville, Raúl A. Sequeira Campos.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-AJPD, MSN 918, year of manufacture 1930.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -34.6048°, -58.3727°.