| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | May 10, 1961 |
| Time: | 0112 |
| Location: | Ghadames, Algeria |
| Operator: | Air France |
| Flight #: | 406 |
| Route: | Fort Lamy, Chad - Marseilles, France |
| AC Type: | Lockheed 1649A Starliner |
| Registration: | F-BHBM |
| cn / ln: | 1027 |
| Aboard: | 78 (passengers:69 crew:9) |
| Fatalities: | 78 (passengers:69 crew:9) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | While en route from Fort Lamy, Chad to Marseilles, France, the airliner crashed and burned in the Sahara Desert on the Algeria / Libya border. Detonation of a nitrocellulose bomb. |
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