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Air Inter Flight 2611
The crash of Tramoyes involving the Air Inter Flight 2611 occurred on , when a Vickers Viscount 708 operated by Air Inter, which was on a scheduled service from Lille to Nice via Lyon, crashed in the early afternoon in Tramoyes in the southwest of the Ain (department), Ain department, during its approach to Lyon-Bron Airport, located about 15 kilometers away. Background Aircraft The aircraft involved was a Vickers Viscount 708 built by the British company Vickers-Armstrong in 1954 for Air France and acquired by Air Inter on 16 March 1962. It was equipped with four turboprop engines of the Rolls-Royce Dart, Dart 506 type. It had accumulated 12732 flight hours. Crew In command was Pilot in command, Captain Georges Valencia, born on 1 September 1925, had logged 7400 flight hours. He was responsible for navigation and engine control on this flight. His First officer (aviation), co-pilot was First Officer Guy Cleret-Langavant, born on 21 July 1930, had logged 5795 flight hour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city in France with a population of 522,250 at the Jan. 2021 census within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon Functional area (France), metropolitan area had a population of 2,308,818 that same year, the second largest in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Lyon Metropolis, Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,424,069 in 2021. Lyon is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region and seat of the Departmental co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
