It was a disastrous Sunday that went down in history as the day of the deadliest air disaster in civil aviation in France.
On March 3, 1974, at 12:32 p.m., the DC-10 of Turkish Airlines Flight 981 took off from Orly (Val-de-Marne) bound for London-Heathrow, England.
Eight minutes later, the aircraft disappeared from the radar screens, after the sudden opening of a door at the rear.
Six passengers were ejected, their bodies were found in Saint-Pathus in Seine-et-Marne.
That is, 15 km from the impact site of the DC-10, which crashed in the forest of Ermenonville (Oise), near the place called Baraque-Chaalis.
There will be no survivors among the 346 people on board, eleven crew members, supporters of the England rugby team who played the day before against France in the Five Nations tournament, or around fifty of Japanese bankers.
In all, around twenty different nationalities were represented on board the plane.
This Sunday at 12:30 p.m., a memorial ceremony will take place near the accident site, where a memorial has been erected bearing the names of all the victims.
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