Paris – Casablanca – Dakar – Buenos Aires

On February 26, 1934 at 12:00 AM, Paris – Casablanca – Dakar – Buenos Aires experienced a crash involving Latécoère 28, operated by Air France, with the event recorded near Cape Bojador Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

7 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 6 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 14.3%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 5, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The single engine airplane departed Paris on an international schedule service to Buenos Aires with five passengers and two crew members on board. On the leg from Casablanca to Dakar, while cruising at night at an altitude of 3,000 metres, the engine caught fire. The pilot reduced his altitude and attempted an emergency landing when the airplane crash landed in rough terrain located about 50 km from the Cape Bojador, bursting into flames. Six occupants were injured while the flight engineer Jean Reig was killed. Crew: Marcel Goret, pilot, Frédéric Marret, radio operator, Jean Reig, flight engineer. †

Aircraft reference details include registration F-AJPA, MSN 925, year of manufacture 1930.