Ambérieu - Ambérieu

On April 26, 1940 at 05:00 PM, Ambérieu - Ambérieu experienced a crash involving Caudron C.280 Phalène, operated by French Air Force - Armée de l'Air, with the event recorded near Jujurieux Ain.

The flight was categorized as test and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley 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 performing a test flight on behalf of battalion 107 based in the Ambérieu-en-Bugey Airbase. Ten minutes after takeoff from Ambérieu Airbase, while flying at a height of about 100 metres facing the sun, the aircraft hit power cables and crashed in a potato field located near the hamlet of La Route, near Jujurieux. Both crew members were killed. Crew: Slt Adrien Charles Bourbon, pilot, Adj André Martin, engineer.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-AMZT, MSN 6917.51, year of manufacture 1934.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 46.0397°, 5.4090°.