Paris - Paris

On August 11, 1951 at 09:25 AM, Paris - Paris experienced a crash involving Douglas DC-3, operated by Air France, with the event recorded near Moisville Eure.

The flight was categorized as test and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 5 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 5, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The aircraft took off from Paris-Le Bourget Airport at 0750LT on a flight to test a new type of air scoop. The new scoop was fitted to one engine only to allow comparison tests to be made. Five minutes later, the aircraft reached the altitude of 4,300 feet and four minutes later, at 0759LT, the starboard engine was stopped and the test commenced with a climb on the port engine with cooling gills open. At 0811LT, at an altitude of 6,980 feet, the crew commenced the second phase of the test with the port engine cooling gills in the trail position. Level off was completed at 0822LT at an altitude of 7,900 feet with the cooling gills closed. About an hour later, while flying at a relative low speed, the airplane went out of control and entered a spin, lost its empennage and eventually crashed in a field located in Moisville. The aircraft was destroyed and all five crew members were killed. Crew: René Gallichet, pilot, Louis Pichard, flight engineer, Jacques Légalité, radio navigator, Lucien Goulay, engineer, Paul Martin, engineer.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-BAXB, MSN 42971, year of manufacture 1946.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 48.8396°, 1.1653°.