| Crash site | Dakar, Senegal |
| Airline | Air France |
| Aircraft | Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation – F-BHBC |
| Route | Paris/Orly – Dakar, Senegal – Monrovia, Liberia – Abidjan, Ivory Coast |
| Crew | 8 – no survivors |
| Passengers | 55 – no survivors |
The crash
The plane was on a flight from France to Ivory Coast, Africa with stops in Senegal and Liberia.
When the plane approached the Dakar/Yoff airport the first attempt to land was abandoned due to poor weather conditions. Shortly after at 06:41 LT the crew started a second attempt to land, but after reporting downwind at 06:47 the plane disappeared in heavy rain and crashed into the sea 2.4 km from the coast.
The plane sank at a depth of 40 meters. Two hours later some debris and a few bodies were recovered.
All 63 on board was killed in the crash.
The cause of the crash could not be determined.
The mail
Only two of the 15 mail bags were recovered. The mail was forwarded with a handstamp.
Later some mail was recovered on the beach. One such item is known with a manuscript note.
01.
Senegalese handstamp.
Black or blue.
Size: 62 x 22 mm.
Examples of mail
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Cover from Denmark with part of postmark from Copenhagen dated 27.8. and addressed to Agboville, Ivory Coast. On the front is a crash handstamp type A. in black and on the back is an arrival postmark dated 5-9 1960. |
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