Santiago de Chile – Buenos Aires – Rio de Janeiro – Salvador – Natal – Dakar – Paris

On November 2, 1935 at 12:00 AM, Santiago de Chile – Buenos Aires – Rio de Janeiro – Salvador – Natal – Dakar – Paris experienced a crash involving Latécoère 28, operated by Air France, with the event recorded near Aracaju Sergipe.

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

4 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 4, crew fatalities: 4, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

After departure from Salvador de Bahia, crew confirmed by radio that all was going well on board. Few minutes later, while cruising off Aracaju, the single engine aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea. A day later, SAR found the debris of the aircraft and the dead bodies of the four occupants. Crew: André Depecker, pilot, Joseph Le Duigou, radio navigator, Auguste Morel, engineer, Fernand Clavere, navigator.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-AJIQ, MSN 906, year of manufacture 1929.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -10.9162°, -37.0775°.