France to lift secrecy on plane crash
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President Macron has ordered the release of secret documents linked to a mysterious crash of an Air France passenger plane that plunged into the Mediterranean 50 years ago,
killing all 95 people aboard
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Crash of Air France flight 1611 from Ajaccio, Corsica, to Nice on Sep 11, 1968, remains deadliest aviation incident in Mediterranean Sea

Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III
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ITALY
FRANCE
MONACO
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
CORSICA (France)

Radar tracking of flight path

10:09 (local time): AF1611 departs Ajaccio

Cannes
Nice
10:34: Plane crashes
Levant Island: Military missile test centre

Marseille

Official version blames fire on board that prompted pilots to lose control

May 10, 2011: Michel Laty, former army secretary, alleges on French TV channel TF1 that aircraft was hit by missile misfired from Levant Island during weapon test

2019: The Guardian newspaper reports that
Sep 11 page in logbook for French Navy missile frigate Le Suffren, in area at the time, was torn out

Mar 9, 2021: President Emmanual Macron announces declassification of pre-1970 archives relating to Algerian War (1954-62).

Move could also shed light on fate of AF1611

20km 12 miles
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Sources: The Guardian, AFP, Aviation Safety Network, Syndicat National du Personnel Navigant Commercial
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