Touraine Air Transport accident in Nantes
Beechcraft 99 · The Touraine Air Transport accident in Nantes occurred on 2 July 1975
From Nantes Atlantique Airport (NTE) to Brest Bretagne airport (BES)
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
- 8 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
Beechcraft 99
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 99
- 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
- F-BTQE
- Operator
- Touraine Air Transport
- Onboard fatalities
- 8
- Route
- From Nantes Atlantique Airport (NTE)To Brest Bretagne airport (BES)
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Nantes Atlantique Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
The Touraine Air Transport accident in Nantes occurred on 2 July 1975. On that day a regional domestic scheduled flight from Nantes to Brest was being operated with a Touraine Air Transport Beechcraft 99. After an engine failure shortly after take-off, the aircraft crashed to the ground due to a loss of control, with all eight occupants killed.
Accident sequence
Shortly after take-off from Nantes-Château Bougon Airport, while the aircraft was still in the initial climb, the captain of the Beechcraft contacted air traffic control and reported that the right engine of his aircraft had failed and caught fire. Air traffic control gave the pilots clearance to return to Nantes and carry out an emergency landing. Shortly afterwards the aircraft crashed onto a railway track located near the airport and burned out completely. The Beechcraft was completely destroyed on impact; all eight occupants were killed.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The accident investigation found that the aircraft had stalled before the crash as a result of the engine failure. Why the right engine had failed could never be determined.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall der Touraine Air Transport in Nantes” (revision 241739670, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall der Touraine Air Transport in Nantes
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 241739670 · 2024-01-31 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q123020738
- 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
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall der Touraine Air Transport in Nantes" (page 12783504, revision 241739670), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- "scheduled flight" in the article's opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.