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On the 26th of June, 1988 a two day old Airbus A320 crashed in a spectacular way during an Airshow in Mulhouse-Habsheim airport outside of Basle, France.
Air France flight 296 was one of the first ever passenger flights with the new Airbus A320 and Air France had allowed it to take part in this air-show as part of a publicity day with the new aircraft.
During the fly-by at Habsheim airfield, the aircraft seemed unable to climb and ended up flying straight into the forrest on the far side of runway 34.

In this episode of "Air Accidents explained" I will dig deep into what happened on this day and why the aircraft seemed unable to follow the pilots commands.

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Below you will find the links to videos and sources used in this episode. Enjoy checking them out!

Final report: https://www.aviation-accidents.net/re...

A320 Photo: @Andrew Thomas
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

A320 Photo: @Airbus Industrie
https://www.britannica.com/technology...

A320 Photo: @British Airways
https://londonairtravel.com/2019/08/1...

A320 Photo: @National Air and Space Museum Archives
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection...

Crash Images: @B3A
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash...

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
02:04 – Chapter 1: Overview
05:32 – Chapter 2: Safety Systems
08:36 – Chapter 3: Flight Crew/Preparations
12:27 – Chapter 4: Pre-Flight Brief
17:27 – Chapter 5: AF296 Takes Flight
25:22 – Chapter 6: The Incident
27:42 – Chapter 7: Final Report
30:18 – Other Crash Episodes
30:37 – Nord VPN Exclusive Offer
31:32 – Full Crash Simulation
34:23 - Outro