Paris – Croydon

On November 16, 1933 at 09:00 AM, Paris – Croydon experienced a crash involving Lioré-et-Olivier LeO H-213, operated by Air France, with the event recorded near Beauvais Oise.

The flight was categorized as postal (mail) and the reported phase was flight at a city crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

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

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The crew departed Paris-Le Bourget Airport at 0840LT on a mail flight to Croydon. Twenty minutes later, while cruising at an altitude of 1,000 metres, the left engine caught fire. The crew decided to bail out and abandoned the aircraft that impacted an electricity pole and the roof of a factory before crashing in an affluent of the Avelon River, bursting into flames. Both pilots were uninjured while the aircraft was destroyed. All mail, more than one ton, was also destroyed.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-AIFD, MSN 01, year of manufacture 1926.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 49.4443°, 1.8933°.