[3] It is located 20.6 km (12.8 mi) north-northeast from the centre of Paris, near Charles de Gaulle Airport.

[3] In 1973, Goussainville was the site of the crash of a supersonic Russian Tupolev Tu-144 which had been performing aerobatic manoeuvres in the Paris Air Show at le Bourget airport, 8 km to the south.

All six people on board the aircraft and eight more on the ground were killed, and fifteen houses in Goussainville's south-east district were destroyed.

The town is less than 6 km from Gonesse, the site of the crash of the supersonic Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000.

The noise of aircraft flying low overhead became a major disturbance and acted as a "constant reminder of the deadly crash.