Air crash of President Barthélemy Boganda
Union Aéromaritime de Transport Nord Noratlas · Explosion
From Berberati to Bangui
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
- 9 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
- Unknown
Nord Noratlas
- Aircraft type
- Nord NORATLAS
- 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-BGZB
- Operator
- Union Aéromaritime de Transport
- Onboard fatalities
- 9
- Route
- From BerberatiTo Bangui
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The air crash of President Barthélemy Boganda – an air crash involving the President of the Central African Republic, Barthélemy Boganda. The accident occurred in Boukpayanga near Bangui on 29 March 1959. The cause of the crash was an explosion of the Nord Noratlas transport aircraft. The crash has not been explained. No investigative group was appointed that could have explained the cause of the accident. According to some theories, the accident was an assassination of the president. According to the theories, Boganda's wife, businessmen unfavourable to him, or French intelligence may have been behind the assassination.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Polish Wikipedia article “Katastrofa lotnicza prezydenta Barthélémiego Bogandy” (revision 79234638, 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
Polish Wikipedia article: Katastrofa lotnicza prezydenta Barthélémiego Bogandy
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 79234638 · 2026-03-04 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q25404374
- 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
- pl Wikipedia article "Katastrofa lotnicza prezydenta Barthélémiego Bogandy" (page 3538414, revision 79234638), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Polish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.