Caudron C.635 Simoun

Albert Prost

The pilot, sole on board, was completing a post maintenance check flight after the engine was subject to several modifications. After takeoff from Roanne-Renaison Airport, while climbing to a height of 300 feet, the pilot initiated a left turn in a relative flat attitude and followed a perpendicular trajectory from the runway. Suddenly, it collided with a weather pylon (8 meters high), overturned and crashed, bursting into flames. The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot was killed.

Björkvallsflyg

The crew was performing a practice mission over Vättern Lake and the aircraft was towing a target for an anti-aircraft battery exercise. During a turn, the elevator was blocked by the towed wire and the aircraft went out of control and crashed into the Vättern Lake, about 60 km northeast of Jönköping and sank by a deep of 90 meters. Both crew members were killed. Crew: John Martinsson, pilot, Karl Arne Glinge, mechanic.

French Government

The crew was performing a mail flight from Antananarivo to Ihosy with an intermediate stop in Morondava. Shortly after take off, while in initial climb, the engine failed. After a first segment of some 1,500 meters, the aircraft stalled, hit a tree and crashed in a field. While the pilot was killed, the engineer was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. Crew: Jacques Ringel, pilot, Roland Chollet, engineer.

Private French

The crew was performing a flight from New York to Punta Arenas, south Chile. While taking off from Guatemala City Airport, the aircraft was unable to gain height, stalled and crashed in a field past the runway end. Both aviators were injured and aircraft was destroyed. Crew: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, pilot, André Prévot, pilot.