- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: August 01, 1948
Time: 2355
Location: 1,200 miles off Dakar, Atlantic Ocean
Operator: Air France
Flight #: 072
Route: Fort-de-France - Port-Etienne - Paris
AC Type: Latecoere 631 (flying boat)
Registration: F-BDRC
cn / ln: 06
Aboard: 52   (passengers:40  crew:12)
Fatalities: 52   (passengers:40  crew:12)
Ground: 0
Summary: Disappeared in the Atlantic on a flight from Fort. de France, Martinique to Port Etienne, Mauritania. The United States Coast Guard cutter Campbell reported finding debris on August 4 with no survivors.
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