1951 Misrair SNCASE Languedoc crash
SNCASE Languedoc · Weather
From Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW) to Mehrabad International Airport (THR)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 22 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 22
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
SNCASE Languedoc
- Aircraft type
- Sncase LANGUEDOC
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- SU-AHH
- Operator
- Misrair
- Onboard fatalities
- 22
- Route
- From Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW)To Mehrabad International Airport (THR)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
On 22 December 1951 a SNCASE Languedoc four-engined airliner of Misrair operating an international scheduled passenger flight from Baghdad Airport, Iraq to Tehran, Iran crashed whilst attempting to land at Tehran Airport during a snowstorm. All 22 people on board were killed.
Accident
The aircraft, operating an international scheduled passenger flight from Baghdad Airport, Iraq to Tehran Airport was reported to have crashed 10 nmi west of Tehran in a snowstorm. All five crew and fifteen passengers on board were killed. The aircraft is reported to have circled Tehran four times before contact was lost with the control tower at about 8pm local time. It was assumed that the aircraft had returned to Baghdad. The wreckage was subsequently discovered the next day in a ravine. Seventeen passengers were listed, but two of them had not boarded the flight in Baghdad. Four members of the Technical Cooperation Administration (TCA), which oversaw the Point Four Program, were killed, including director American Henry G. Bennett.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 1951 Misrair SNCASE Languedoc crash
- Revision
- 1364456127 · 2026-07-16 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q16205891
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "1951 Misrair SNCASE Languedoc crash" (page 42079881, revision 1364456127)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator is an airline according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.