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We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.
Safety history
- September 13, 1971Accident
While parked at Qinhuangdao Shanhaiguan Airport, east of Pekin, the three engine aircraft was 'stolen' by nine officers of the Chinese Air Force who apparently wanted to desert. While cruising over Mongolia, the airplane crashed in unclear circumstances near the city of Öndörkhaan. All nine occupants, among them Lin Biao, were killed. It is unclear if the accident was the consequence of a loss of control due to fuel exhaustion or if the aircraft was shot down by the pilot of a fighter aircraft.
- August 13, 1969Accident
Two Dassault M.D.311 Flamant of the French Air Force deparated Toulouse-Francazal Airbase on a combined exercise on behalf of the Groupement École 316. Both aircraft were carrying four crew members. Over the region of Aubiet, both airplane collided in unclear conditions and crashed in an open field, killing all eight crew members. Crew: Cpt Artigue, Lt Durrieu, Lt Soubeirat, Lt Fosse, Adj Beaufrère, Adj Truche, Cpl Mauge, Cpl Vogel. Probable cause (official findings): In-flight collision for un