Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport is a small airport near the town of Habsheim

Habsheim

Habsheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It forms part of the Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération, the inter-communal local government body for the Mulhouse conurbation.-References:*...

 in France

France

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. The airport is a former military base, and is now mainly used for light aircraft. The airport also houses the Aéro-Club des Trois Frontières, Aéro-Club du Haut-Rhin, Aéro-Club de Mulhouse.

Incidents & accidents

On 26 June, 1988, Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport was the site of the crash of Air France Flight 296

Air France Flight 296

Air France Flight 296 was a chartered flight of a new fly-by-wire Airbus A320-111 operated by Air France. On June 26, 1988, it was flying over Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport as part of an air show. The low-speed fly-by was supposed to take place at with landing gear down at an altitude of 100 feet...

. It was the first ever crash of an Airbus A320

Airbus A320 family

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type aircraft. The aircraft was doing a low flypast over the airport as part of an air show, but crashed into trees at the northern end of the airport. Three people were killed, and the airliner destroyed.