What happened
During a scheduled mail delivery service operating between Paris and Lannion, an aircraft made an intermediate stop at Dinard Airport. While performing the final approach to the airfield, the flight crew encountered dense fog that obscured the runway from view. After passing the runway threshold at an altitude of approximately 200 feet, the captain elected to execute a go-around procedure.
As the aircraft traversed the length of the runway, the left wing made contact with the tops of several pine trees, resulting in a partial structural failure where roughly two meters of the wing were severed. This impact led to an immediate loss of control. The aircraft subsequently crashed approximately 3.3 km west of the airport, situated between the villages of Pleumeur-Bodou and Trébeurden. Search teams located the wreckage the following morning.
Findings
The accident resulted in two fatalities and one serious injury among the crew members. Investigators determined that the primary factor contributing to the crash was spatial disorientation experienced by the pilot-in-command during the low-visibility approach.