Air France Flight 212 (1968)

[1] On March 6, 1968, the Boeing 707 operating the flight, named "Chateau de Lavoute Polignac", crashed while approaching Le Raizet Airport in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, killing all 63 occupants of the plane.As the aircraft continued north-westerly, it crashed into the Grande Découverte mountain, 27.5 kilometres (17.1 mi) south-southwest of Le Raizet Airport and about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the main peak of La Grande Soufrière, at an altitude of 3,937 feet (1,200 m).The accident investigators cited the probable cause as a visual approach procedure at night in which the descent was begun from an incorrectly identified point.The aircraft had flown for 33 hours since coming off the Boeing production line, and was on her second revenue service (her maiden passenger flight was the previous day's outbound journey from Paris).[2] The accident came six years after Air France Flight 117, another Boeing 707, crashed into a mountain further north on the same island while on approach to Point-à-Pitre's Le Raizet airport.

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