Paris – Toulouse – Dakar – Natal – Rio de Janeiro

On August 2, 1936 at 06:00 AM, Paris – Toulouse – Dakar – Natal – Rio de Janeiro experienced a crash involving Wibault 282/283, operated by Air France, with the event recorded near Mazamet Tarn.

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

3 people were known to be on board, 3 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

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

Crew left Paris-Le Bourget Airport at 0245LT for a mail flight to Rio de Janeiro with intermediate stops in Toulouse, Dakar and Natal. Around 0545LT, crew informed ATC that he was flying between Toulouse and Perpignan and the three engine aircraft hit a mountain slope near its top and was destroyed by impact forces. The pilot of a French Air Force fighter localized the debris at 1430LT at an altitude of 1,000 metres near the village of Albine, in the region of Mazamet, southeast of Castres. All three occupants were killed. The aircraft was christened 'L'Aventureux'. Crew: Gaston Génin, pilot, Roger Savary, copilot, Albert Aubert, radio navigator.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-ANBL, MSN 15, year of manufacture 1934.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 43.4902°, 2.3764°.