1973 Paris Air Show crash

When

3 Jun 1973

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

49.03° N, 2.46° E

Description

aviation accident

Deaths

14

Injured

25

Aviation accident

On 3 June 1973, the second production model of the Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 airliner was destroyed in a crash during the 1973 Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport. Whilst performing a display that included extreme manoeuvres, the aircraft stalled at low altitude, and during the attempted recovery disintegrated in mid-air, falling on the town of Goussainville, Val-d'Oise, France, killing all six crew members a…

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article

• 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 “A Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic aircraft crashes at the Paris air show; 14 are killed”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un Tupolev 144 s'écrase à Goussainville faisant 14 morts, lors d'une démonstration pendant le salon du Bourget (voir accident du Tupolev Tu-144 au Bourget)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа Ту-144 под Парижем, погибло 14 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Tu-144、パリ航空ショーにて墜落。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page