On 1 July 1948 the Avio Linee Italiane Fiat G.212PW “I-ELSA” was an international scheduled passenger flight from Linate Airport, Milan, Italy to Zaventem Airport, Brussels, Belgium.

[1] At 11:50 am local time, the pilot contacted the regional control centre at Beauvais in Belgium.

[1] During the landing the airplane hit treetops of the forest 500 meters from the runway, crashed and caught fire.

[6][4] The conclusion of the investigation was that the pilot decided to make an emergency landing due to the bad weather conditions and the failure of both the radio communication equipment and radio navigation equipment, at another airport.

To be able to land at the beginning of the runway the pilot flew a steep turn by tilting the left wing of the plane so that the roll angle put the aircraft at stall speed at low altitude.