Mount Cimet
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View of Mount Cimet (center left of the picture) from the top of Mont Pelat.
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 Mount Cimet
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Mount Cimet or Cemet is a mountain in the Pelat Massif of the French Alps in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
On the night of 1 September 1953, an Air France Lockheed L-749 Constellation, registered in France as F-BAZZ, also known as Air France Flight 178, which was flying from Paris-Orly Airport to Saigon, crashed into the top of the mountain, with the loss of 42 lives.[1]
On 24 March 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed close to Mount Cimet.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Accident description for Air France Constellation F-BAZZ at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2015-04-04.
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