Paris – Brussels

On December 18, 1949 at 08:30 PM, Paris – Brussels experienced a crash involving Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3), operated by SABENA - Société Anonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aérienne, with the event recorded near Paris-Le Bourget Seine-Saint-Denis.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

8 people were known to be on board, 8 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: 4, passenger fatalities: 4, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. Shortly after takeoff from Paris-Le Bourget Airport, while climbing, the aircraft went out of control and crashed onto a house located in Aulnay-sous-Bois, about 4 km southeast of the airfield. All eight occupants were killed while there were no casualties on the ground. It appears that control was lost following the failure of a wing.

Aircraft reference details include registration OO-AUQ, MSN 10241, year of manufacture 1943.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 48.9434°, 2.4220°.