Marseille - Marseille

On August 4, 1983 at 12:00 AM, Marseille - Marseille experienced a crash involving Canadair CL-215, operated by Sécurité civile française, with the event recorded near Marseille Bouches-du-Rhône.

The flight was categorized as fire fighting and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 2 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: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The crew was engaged in a fire fighting mission in Marseille. While flying at low height, the water bomber plane struck a tree and crashed in a wooded area located in the Marseilleveyre Mountain Range near the district of Pointe-Rouge, south of Marseille. The aircraft was destroyed and both occupants were killed. Crew: Yves Kohler, pilot, Georges Berujeau, mechanic.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-ZBBR, MSN 1001, year of manufacture 1968.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 43.2984°, 5.3795°.