What the records say
- When
- 28 Oct 1949
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 37.81° N, 25.21° W
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 48
Air France Flight 009
1949 aviation accident
Air France Flight 009 was a scheduled international flight that crashed into a mountain while attempting to land at Santa Maria Airport, Azores, on 28 October 1949, on a stopover during a scheduled international passenger flight from Paris-Orly Airport to New York City. All 48 people on board were killed.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1949 Air France Lockheed Constellation crash: An Air France flight from Paris to New York crashes in the Azores on São Miguel Island, killing all aboard”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “le boxeur Marcel Cerdan est tué dans l’accident du vol Paris-New York Air France”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page