Air France Flight 212 was a Boeing 707, registration F-BHSZ, International Scheduled Passenger that took off from Caracas-Simon Bolivar International Airport on December 4, 1969. Flight 212, which originated in Quito, Ecuador, was flying to Paris, France via Caracas, Venezuela, Pointe-à-Pitre on the island of Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe, and Lisbon, Portugal.