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1419: 27: 151: 1472: 533: 557: 545: 143:. This was the same company which had founded the original Aéromaritime in 1934 to supplement its shipping operations around West Africa. The new postwar Aéromaritime continued under the wing of UAT until the rise of African nationalism required the creation of a more user-friendly 325:). Three passengers out of a total of 70 passengers and crew died in the crash. The aircraft took off in a tropical storm and hit a downdraft. The crash site was within the airport perimeter. 202:
1A and placed it in service on 19 February 1953 on certain routes to West Africa and by November 1953 the Comets were serving Johannesburg. In September 1954 the first of a fleet of
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The February 1959 OAG shows 14 DC-6Bs a week out of Le Bourget bound for Tripoli, Johannesburg and other African cities.
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aircraft was put into service and in 1955 the Douglas DC-6 replaced the Comets after their problems with
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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
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R.E.G. Davies, A History of the World's Airlines, 1964, Oxford University Press, ISBN none
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The airline was founded in 1949 by a group of technicians and the shipping line
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of the Central African Republic autonomous territory (the future
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On 1 May 1955, the company took over Far East subsidiary of
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of UAT (F-BGZB) exploded in midair on a flight between
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Index


De Havilland Comet
TAI
UTA
Hubs
Paris–Le Bourget Airport
8th arrondissement
Paris
France
8th arrondissement
Paris
Chargeurs Réunis
Air Afrique

Aigle Azur
Aigle Azur Extrême-Orient
Boeing 307 Stratoliners
Douglas DC-4
Dakar
Pointe Noire
Saigon
Abidjan
De Havilland Comet
Nord Noratlas
BOAC
International Control Commission
Saigon
Phnom Penh
Vientiane
Hanoi

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