FRANCE: AIRLINER CRASH-LANDS IN SURF - PASSENGERS WADE ASHORE

Record ID: 383627

  • Title: FRANCE: AIRLINER CRASH-LANDS IN SURF - PASSENGERS WADE ASHORE
  • Date: 18th December 1965
  • Summary: WRECKAGE OF THE PLANE ON THE BEACH AND PEOPLE LOOKING AT IT. Initials RM/V/WH/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 2nd January 1966 12:00
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  • Location: MERS-LES-BAINS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVACNF84S0DHPG6TI7X47QNE2CRH
  • Story Text: A DC-3 AIRLINER CRASH-LANDED IN THE SEA JUST OFF MERS-LES-BAINS TODAY (SATURDAY) IN NORTHERN FRANCE - AND ALL 32 PEOPLE ON BOARD ESCAPED UNHURT. THE PLANE WAS ON A FLIGHT FROM BEAUVAIS TO LONDON WHEN ITS RADIO NAVIGATIONAL AIDS FAILED.

    THE PILOT PUT THE PLANE DOWN JUST OFF THE BEACH, WHERE IT WAS LATER BROKEN UP IN THE SURF. THE PASSENGERS AND CREW WERE ABLE TO WADE ASHORE, GUIDED BY LOCAL PEOPLE WHO HAD HEARD THE AIRCRAFT ENGINES.

    THE PASSENGERS - 29 IN ALL - COMPLETED THEIR JOURNEY TO LONDON THIS EVENING - BY AIR.
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