The idyllic Caribbean island of Guadeloupe witnessed a tragedy 62 years ago.
The grim aftermath of the crash A tragedy in the Caribbean left 113 people dead after an Air France Boeing jet crashed on a mountainside. The horror unfolded on the idyllic island of Guadeloupe 62 years ago after it went down on approach to the airport. Air France’s Boeing 707-328 was travelling on its scheduled long-haul route from Paris via Lisbon, the Azores, Guadeloupe and Peru to Santiago, Chile.
Weather that day saw violent thunderstorms and low-hanging clouds. To make matters worse, the VOR navigational beacon was out of action. Wreckage of the Boeing 707 which crashed near Deshaies in Guadeloupe pictured on June 26, 1962 The thunderstorms meant that the plane strayed 9.3 miles west from the track after it messed up the automatic direction finder readings. The crash happened on hill called Dos D’Ane which translates as The Donkey’s Back at about 1,400ft.
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