Marseille – Lyon – Paris

On January 6, 1947 at 03:00 PM, Marseille – Lyon – Paris experienced a crash involving AAC.1 Toucan, operated by Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux - TAI, with the event recorded near Mt Ventoux Vaucluse.

The flight was categorized as cargo and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

3 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 3 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

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

The listed crash cause is weather. The three engine aircraft left Marseille-Marignane Airport at 1340LT on a cargo flight to Paris with an intermediate stop in Lyon. About one hour and twenty minutes into the flight, the crew encountered poor weather conditions with low visibility due to heavy snow falls. The aircraft hit with its undercarriage the south slope of Mt Ventoux located northeast of Carpentras, and came to rest in 1,5 meter of snow. The crew was slightly injured and rescued a day later while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. It is reported that the aircraft was flying at the altitude of 1,800 meters at the time of the accident (Mt Ventoux is 1,911 meters high) and the pilot was probably following a wrong corridor.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-BBYK, MSN 231.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 44.1740°, 5.2784°.