Barcelona - Geneva

On September 25, 1946 at 12:00 AM, Barcelona - Geneva experienced a crash involving Percival P.10 Vega Gull, operated by A. Desbillet, with the event recorded near Leucate Aude.

The flight was categorized as charter/taxi (non scheduled revenue flight) and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river 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: 1, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 2, passenger fatalities: 2, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. The single engine airplane departed Barcelona on an on-demand taxi flight to Geneva, carrying two passengers and one pilot. While flying along the French coast, the pilot encountered an unexpected situation and lost control of the airplane that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Leucate. The aircraft was destroyed and all three occupants were killed, among them the Swiss aviator Charles Hautier and the German Director Franz von Hoesslin who was travelling back to Geneva with his wife Emma. Crew: Charles Hautier, pilot. Passengers: Franz von Hoesslin, Emma von Hoesslin.

Aircraft reference details include registration HB-OMO, MSN K.64, year of manufacture 1937.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 42.9100°, 3.0270°.