Previous incidents involving Air France

Below are some previous incidents involving the French flag carrier.

March 6, 1962: An Air France Boeing 707 crashes on take-off killing 130.

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Sept 11, 1968: An Air France caravelle crashes in Antibes, killing 95.

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July 25, 2000: All 109 passengers and crew and four people on the ground are killed when an Air France Concorde jetliner crashes after catching fire on take-off near Paris.

 

May 25, 2001: An Air France Airbus 340 makes a crash landing at Cayenne airport in French Guiana, landing 30 meters too soon. No casualties.

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July 6, 2005: An Air France jet runs into a stray cow as it lands in the southern Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt. No-one is injured in the incident.

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Aug 3, 2005: An Air France A340 passenger jet with up to 309 passengers and crew on board skids off the end of the runway and bursts into flames after landing in a thunder storm at Torontos Pearson International Airport. No-one is killed, while 14 people suffer minor injuries.

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Dec 17, 2005: An Air France Boeing 777 makes an emergency landing at Irkutsk in Siberia when one of its two engines breaks down on a flight from Seoul to Paris. No casualties.

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