Airlines and destinations

Accidents and incidents

• On 28 December 1971, Vickers Viscount
  Vickers Viscount
  The Vickers Viscount was a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs, making it the first such aircraft to enter service in the world...
  
   F-BOEA of Air Inter
  Air Inter
  Air Inter was a semi-public French domestic airline. Before its merger with Air France, the airline was headquartered in Paray-Vieille-Poste, Essonne. Earlier in its life, it was headquartered in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.Air Inter was incorporated on 12 November 1954...
  
   was damaged beyond economic repair when it departed the runway on a training flight during a simulated failure of #4 engine.
• On 27 October 1972, Air Inter
  Air Inter
  Air Inter was a semi-public French domestic airline. Before its merger with Air France, the airline was headquartered in Paray-Vieille-Poste, Essonne. Earlier in its life, it was headquartered in the 1st arrondissement of Paris.Air Inter was incorporated on 12 November 1954...
  
   Flight 696, Vickers Viscount 724 F-BMCH, en route from Lyon
  Lyon-Bron Airport
  Lyon-Bron Airport is an airport located in Bron, east of Lyon, both communes of the Rhône department in the Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France.-History:...
  
   to Clermont-Ferrand, crashed 4 km west of Noirétable
  Noirétable
  Noirétable is a commune in the Loire department in central France.-See also:*Communes of the Loire department...
  
   during bad weather; 60 on board died, 8 survived. The subsequent investigation determined that the accident was caused by the flight crew's failure to notice that their plane's radio compass had shifted 180 degree
  Degree (angle)
  A degree , usually denoted by ° , is a measurement of plane angle, representing 1⁄360 of a full rotation; one degree is equivalent to π/180 radians...
  
  s, most likely the result of electrical discharges in the rainstorm they were flying through; this blocked the signals emitted by Clermont-Ferrand's non-directional beacon
  Non-directional beacon
  A non-directional beacon is a radio transmitter at a known location, used as an aviation or marine navigational aid. As the name implies, the signal transmitted does not include inherent directional information, in contrast to other navigational aids such as low frequency radio range, VHF...
  
   (NDB), which was instructing the crew to fly a holding pattern prior to receiving clearance to descend to 3,600 ft.

Sources

• French Aeronautical Information Publication
  Aeronautical Information Publication
  In aviation, an Aeronautical Information Publication is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization as a publication issued by or with the authority of a state and containing aeronautical information of a lasting character essential to air navigation...
  
   for (PDF
  Portable Document Format
  Portable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems....
  
  ) - CLERMONT FERRAND AUVERGNE

External links

• Airport website
• Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport (official site - corporate)
• Aéroport de Clermont-Ferrand - Auvergne (Union des Aéroports Français)