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7 unusual facts about Air France


Christian Hardy

Hardy wrote, performed and produced the Christian Silva album Onward! which was released in April 2008 by UK label Something In Construction (home to The Silent League, Loney, Dear and Air France).

Dany Verissimo

The child of a Malagasy mother and a French father, a financial director at Air France, Verissimo spent her childhood in France, the United States, and Nigeria.

Gendarme in New York

When he arrives there she meets him dressed as an Air France flight attendant.

Nakamura-ku, Nagoya

Air France has an office in the Nagoya-Daiya Building in Nakamura-ku.

Olivier de Funès

Olivier de Funès (born 11 August 1949 in Paris), is a French former film actor and Air France pilot, son of renown actor Louis de Funès.

Roger Excoffon

Air France was one of Excoffon's largest and most prestigious clients.

Yitzhak Hofi

In July 1976, Hofi lobbied strongly for a rescue mission to be mounted to save the large number of Israeli passengers on a hijacked Air France airliner flown to Entebbe International Airport in Uganda.


Air France Flight 107

On 1 September 1953, an Air France Lockheed L-749 Constellation, registered in France as F-BAZZ, flying Flight 107, a scheduled flight from Paris to Saigon, crashed into the Tower Alps near Barcelonnette on the first stage of the flight, between Orly Airport and Nice Airport.

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.

Airline teletype system

In 1949, the Société Internationale de Télécommunication Aeronautique (SITA) was formed as a cooperative by 11 airlines: Air France, KLM, Sabena, Swissair, TWA, British European Airways, British Overseas Airways Corporation, British South American Airways, Swedish A. G. Aerotransport, Danish Det Danske Luftfartselskab A/S, and Norwegian Det Norske Luftfartselskap.

Amadeus CRS

Amadeus was formed in 1987 by an alliance between Air France, Lufthansa, Iberia Airlines and Scandinavian Airlines System.

Dnata Singapore

Ground handling operations began in Singapore in December 1977 with the incorporation of Changi International Airport Services (CIAS) as a joint venture between the Port of Singapore Authority and five airlines, namely Air France, China Airlines, Garuda Indonesia, KLM and Lufthansa.

Ginette Neveu

On 28 October, she was on board an Air France flight from Paris en route to another series of concert engagements when it flew into a mountain after two failed attempts to make a landing at the São Miguel Island airport in the Azores.

Havas Worldwide

Havas Worldwide works with 78 of the 100 largest global advertisers including Air France, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Danone Group, IBM, Kraft Foods, Lacoste, Merck, Pernod Ricard, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Reckitt Benckiser, Sanofi, and Volvo.

John Emlyn-Jones

They had boarded the Air France flight bound for Paris from Nice on the morning of 3 March 1952 but the plane got into trouble soon after take-off and tried to return to the airfield.

Juan Sánchez Vidal

The largest model in his collection, a model of an Air France Airbus A320, was obtained after he traded one of his planes with a local Air France worker who also collects models.

Knez Mihailova Street

Furthermore, the representative offices of various airlines such as Aeroflot, FlyDubai, Emirates Airline, Qantas, Turkish Airlines and Air France are located in Knez Mihailova.

Latécoère 521

Operated by Air France on route proving flights the 521 was militarised in 1939 and operated by the Vichy government until stored at Marignane, finally being destroyed when axis troops retreated from advancing Allies.

Lioré et Olivier LeO H-47

In 1934, the French air ministry issued a specification for a long-range flying boat to be used by Air France to operate services over the South Atlantic between Dakar in Senegal and Natal in Brazil.

Peter Deilmann Cruises

The company chartered the ill-fated Air France Flight 4590, the Concorde flight from Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris, France, to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, New York, United States (operated by Air France) which crashed on 25 July 2000 at Gonesse, France, killing all one hundred passengers and nine crew on board the flight, and four people on the ground.

Thalys

In May 1999, the new high-speed line serving Charles de Gaulle Airport opened, and Thalys started direct services from the Airport to Brussels, including code sharing agreements with Air France, American Airlines and Northwest Airlines.

Venetian National Party

One of the party's candidates, Angela Cristina Oliveira da Silva, was killed in the explosion of Air France's flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.


see also

Air France Flight 406

Air France Flight 406 was an International Scheduled Passenger flight originating in Brazzaville, Congo with a final destination of Paris, France, with intermediate stops in Fort Lamy, Chad, and Marseille, France.

Airmail stamps of Denmark

From Paris it flew via Air France flights #O/M via Marseille, Athens, Beirut to Saigon.

Antisemitism in Europe

One example is the German leftist terrorist group "Revolutionary Cells" whose members participated in hijacking the Air France Flight 139 in 1976 (Operation Entebbe) as well as the planned assassination of the head of the German Jewish community, Heinz Galinski and famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.

Chateau de Sully

Air France Flight 007, also known as Chateau de Sully, 1962 crash of an Air France Boeing 707

Corbigny

On the 15th of January 1934, a Dewoitine tri-motor commercial airliner, the 'Emeraude' (Emerald), returning from Indochina, crashed into a hillside near Corbigny, killing all ten people aboard, including the director of Air France, Maurice Noguès, and the governor-general of the colony of French Indochina, Pierre Pasquier.

Dewoitine D.332

The three D.333s were used on the Toulouse-Dakar sector of the Air France South American route for several years.Two of these planes were transferred to the Argentine Air Force after WWII and usde along with two 338s.

Hurel-Dubois HD.31

None were actually built for Air France or Aigle Azer but the IGN continued to be interested in an aerial photography variant to replace the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress the company was then using.

Lioré et Olivier LeO H-246

The German Luftwaffe took over the three seized ex-Air France aircraft, fitting them with five MG 15 machine guns as a defensive armament and carrying up to 21 soldiers or 14 stretchers.

Spinetta

Jean-Cyril Spinetta (b. 1943), French businessman, Chairman and CEO of Air France-KLM

Suckling Airways

ScotAirways operated its existing services to Edinburgh and Dundee as codeshare services with Air France, and in addition launched new services to George Best Belfast City Airport, Strasbourg and Eindhoven from London City Airport on behalf of CityJet.