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Air France Flight 1611
Air France Flight 1611 was a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III en route from the island of Corsica to Nice, France, on 11 September 1968 when it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off Nice, killing all 95 on board. According to the official report, the crash was non-survivable. The crash, to date, retains the highest death toll of any aviation incident in the Mediterranean Sea.
Among the dead was French general René Cogny.
The probable cause was attributed to a fire
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