On 9 May 1934, a Wibault 282T-12 of Air France crashed into the English Channel off Dungeness, United Kingdom, while operating an international scheduled passenger flight from Le Bourget, Paris, France to Croydon, Surrey, United Kingdom.
At 12:19, a radio fix from Croydon confirmed the aircraft's position as 18+1⁄2 miles (29.8 km) west-southwest of Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais.
At the time, the weather conditions included low cloud cover.
[3] At 17:20 GMT, the Folkestone lifeboat was launched with instructions to search the sea at a position 12 miles (19 km) south east by south of Dungeness, where wreckage had reportedly been sighted.
The absence of an SOS call from the aircraft indicated that it had crashed into the sea while attempting to fly below the low cloud base.