AAC.1 Toucan crash, Jun 4, 1947 (3 killed), Gémenos Bouch...
AAC.1 Toucan accident on June 4, 1947 near Gémenos Bouches-du-Rhône, France with 3 fatalities. Cause: An automatic direction finder failure was...
- Date: June 4, 1947
- Aircraft: AAC.1 Toucan
- Location: Gémenos Bouches-du-Rhône, France
- Fatalities: 3
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: An automatic direction finder failure was followed by a low altitude night descent into terrain.
An Air France AAC.1 Toucan on a mail flight from Nice to Marseille struck a mountainside near Gémenos while descending toward Marignane at night. Three crew died, one of them two days after the crash.