Ballon de Servance

The Ballon de Servance is a summit in the Southern Vosges Mountains, located on the border of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and the Grand Est region.

It marks the first significant peak with an altitude exceeding 1,000 meters when approaching the Vosges Mountains from the southwest.

The Ballon de Servance rises to an altitude of 1,216 meters, straddling the border of two departments: Haute-Saône, where it stands as the highest point, and Vosges.

[2] On the morning of June 25, 1963, two American warplanes, F-100 Super Sabres, crashed simultaneously into the rocks of Luthier due to bad weather.

[4] Near the border between Vosges and Haute-Saône, close to the Sailley refuge located below the fort on the eastern slope of the summit, there is a memorial dedicated to the two pilots killed in this simultaneous double air disaster.

The memorial dedicated to the two pilots, resting on the remains of a jet engine.