Air France Flight 296 A320 Plane Crash Mulhouse Habsheim Airport - [26 June 1988]
Air France Flight 296 was a chartered flight of a new Airbus A320-111 operated by Air France for Air Charter. On 26 June 1988, the plane crashed while making a low pass over Mulhouse Habsheim Airport (ICAO airport code LFGB) as part of the Habsheim Air Show.
This particular flight was the A320's first passenger flight (most of those on-board were journalists and raffle winners). The low speed flyover, with landing gear down, was supposed to take place at an altitude of 100 feet (30 m); instead, the plane performed the flyover at 30 feet (9.1 m), skimmed the treetops of the forest at the end of the runway (which had not been shown on the airport map given to the pilots) and crashed. All the passengers survived the initial impact, but a woman and two children died from smoke inhalation before they could escape.
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