The 1959 TAI Douglas DC-7 accident involved a Douglas DC-7C four-engined airliner registered to Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI), a French airline, on 24 September 1959. The aircraft was operating a scheduled flight between France and the Ivory Coast via Mali, and crashed during its departure from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, France when it flew into trees. All of the flight crew and 45 of the 56 passengers on board were killed; the other 11 passengers were seriously injured.[1]