Latécoère 26

Air France

The airplane departed Santo Amaro at 1430LT on a local flight with two crew members and five passengers. About five minutes into the flight, the airplane impacted a tree and crashed, bursting into flames. All five passengers were slightly injured while the pilot was killed and the radio operator was seriously injured. He died of injuries the next day. Crew: Victor Etienne, pilot, Henrique Baudel, radio navigator.

Air France

Crashed in unknown circumstances. There were no casualties.

L'Aéropostale

En route from Alicante to Casablanca, the aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances southwest of Rabat. The pilot was injured and the aircraft was destroyed.

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En route from Dakar to Casablanca, the crew lost his orientation and attempted to make an emergency landing. No distress call was received at the company base in Casablanca. SAR operations were initiated and the crew of another aircraft spotted the wreckage three days later in an uninhabited area located south of Tarfaya, near Cape Juby. All three occupants were rescued . Crew: Albert Pinot, pilot, Mr. Neri, mechanic. Passenger: Mr. Ibrapa.

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The pilot was performing a mail flight from South America to France. En route, he encountered unknown technical problems and attempted an emergency landing. While the aircraft was damaged beyond repair, the pilot was unhurt.

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Upon landing in Porto Alegre, the single engine airplane came to rest upside down, partially submerged in the Rio Guaíba. The pilot Raoul MacLeod was injured while the navigator Jean Macaigne was unhurt.

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While flying over the region of Tan-Tan, the Pilot Laurent Guerrero encountered technical problems and was forced to attempt an emergency landing. While the aircraft was damaged beyond repair, the pilot was unhurt and later rescued and repatriated by another pilot of the operator, Alexandre Baile.

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Shortly after takeoff, the aircraft stalled and crashed in Churriana, near the airfield, bursting into flames. All three occupants killed. They were performing a mail flight from France to Morocco with intermediate stops in Spain. Crew: Georges Schenk, pilot, Pierre Le Bouteiller, radio navigator, Mr. Sahenoze, engineer.

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The engine failed in flight, forcing the pilot Clément Rolland to attempt an emergency landing. While the aircraft was damaged beyond repair, the pilot was unhurt.

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The crew was on his way to France with mail (letters and packets) from South America. The aircraft departed Agadir at 1600LT bound for Casablanca, and overflew Mazagan (El Jadida) at 1915LT. Few minutes later, while cruising along the coast, the single engine aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances in the Atlantic Ocean. SAR operations were initiated but no trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found, and all operations were suspended few days later. Three weeks later, the dead bodies of both crew were found on a beach near Azemmour. Crew: Emile Lécrivain, pilot, Pierre Ducaud, radio navigator.

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En route, visibility became low due to foggy conditions. The crew reduced his altitude to maintain a visual contact with the ground when the aircraft hit a sand dune and crashed. Both crew were injured and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

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The crew was performing an internal leg within Brazil on a flight from South America to France. While cruising over the region of Florianópolis, a fire erupted and the pilot Henri Delaunay reduced his altitude to make an emergency landing. Hurt by fire, he eventually lost control of the aircraft that crashed in a prairie, bursting into flames. A passenger was killed while both other passengers and the mechanic were injured. The pilot was seriously injured (several burns) but came back on the line after 10 month hospital.

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The aircraft crashed for unknown reason while on final approach to Saint Louis, Senegal. Both crew members were slightly injured and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.