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Air France Flight 007
48°43′N 2°22′E / 48.72°N 2.37°E
Air France Flight 007 crashed on 3 June 1962 while on take-off from Orly Airport. The only survivors of the disaster were two flight attendants; the other eight crew members, and all 122 passengers on board were killed. The crash was at the time the worst single-aircraft disaster and the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 707.
According to witnesses, during the takeoff roll on runway 8, the nose of Flight 007 lifted off the runway, but the main landing gear remained on the ground. Though the aircraft had already exceeded the maximum speed at which the takeoff could be safely aborted within the remaining runway length, the flight crew attempted to abort the take off.
With less than 3,000 feet (910 m) of runway remaining, the pilots used the wheel brakes and reverse thrust to stop the 707. They braked so hard that they blew the main landing gear tires and destroyed the undercarriage in an attempt to ground loop. The aircraft went off the end of the runway and plowed into the town of Villeneuve-le-Roi, where a fire broke out. Three flight attendants initially survived the disaster, but one died in a hospital. At the time, it was the world's worst air disaster involving one aircraft. This death toll would be surpassed over 3.5 years later, when in February 1966, All Nippon Airways Flight 60 crashed into Tokyo Bay for reasons unknown, killing all 133 people.
Later investigation found indications that a motor driving the elevator trim may have failed, leaving Captain Roland Hoche and First Officer Jacques Pitoiset unable to complete rotation and takeoff.[better source needed]
The Atlanta Art Association had sponsored a month-long tour of the art treasures of Europe, and 106 of the passengers were art patrons heading home to Atlanta on this charter flight. The tour group included many of Atlanta's cultural and civic leaders. Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen Jr. went to Orly to inspect the crash site where so many Atlantans perished.
During their visit to Paris, the Atlanta arts patrons had seen Whistler's Mother at the Louvre. In late 1962, the Louvre, as a gesture of good will to the people of Atlanta, sent Whistler's Mother to Atlanta to be exhibited at the Atlanta Art Association museum on Peachtree Street.
The crash occurred during the civil rights movement in the United States. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte announced cancellation of a sit-in in downtown Atlanta (a protest of the city's racial segregation) as a conciliatory gesture to the grieving city. However, Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, speaking in Los Angeles, expressed joy over the deaths of the all-white group from Atlanta, saying:
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Air France Flight 007
48°43′N 2°22′E / 48.72°N 2.37°E
Air France Flight 007 crashed on 3 June 1962 while on take-off from Orly Airport. The only survivors of the disaster were two flight attendants; the other eight crew members, and all 122 passengers on board were killed. The crash was at the time the worst single-aircraft disaster and the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 707.
According to witnesses, during the takeoff roll on runway 8, the nose of Flight 007 lifted off the runway, but the main landing gear remained on the ground. Though the aircraft had already exceeded the maximum speed at which the takeoff could be safely aborted within the remaining runway length, the flight crew attempted to abort the take off.
With less than 3,000 feet (910 m) of runway remaining, the pilots used the wheel brakes and reverse thrust to stop the 707. They braked so hard that they blew the main landing gear tires and destroyed the undercarriage in an attempt to ground loop. The aircraft went off the end of the runway and plowed into the town of Villeneuve-le-Roi, where a fire broke out. Three flight attendants initially survived the disaster, but one died in a hospital. At the time, it was the world's worst air disaster involving one aircraft. This death toll would be surpassed over 3.5 years later, when in February 1966, All Nippon Airways Flight 60 crashed into Tokyo Bay for reasons unknown, killing all 133 people.
Later investigation found indications that a motor driving the elevator trim may have failed, leaving Captain Roland Hoche and First Officer Jacques Pitoiset unable to complete rotation and takeoff.[better source needed]
The Atlanta Art Association had sponsored a month-long tour of the art treasures of Europe, and 106 of the passengers were art patrons heading home to Atlanta on this charter flight. The tour group included many of Atlanta's cultural and civic leaders. Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen Jr. went to Orly to inspect the crash site where so many Atlantans perished.
During their visit to Paris, the Atlanta arts patrons had seen Whistler's Mother at the Louvre. In late 1962, the Louvre, as a gesture of good will to the people of Atlanta, sent Whistler's Mother to Atlanta to be exhibited at the Atlanta Art Association museum on Peachtree Street.
The crash occurred during the civil rights movement in the United States. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte announced cancellation of a sit-in in downtown Atlanta (a protest of the city's racial segregation) as a conciliatory gesture to the grieving city. However, Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, speaking in Los Angeles, expressed joy over the deaths of the all-white group from Atlanta, saying:
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