Fontaine-Chaalis

Fontaine-Chaalis

Fontaine-Chaalis
Administration
Country France
Region Picardy
Department Oise
Arrondissement Senlis
Canton Nanteuil-le-Haudouin
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du Pays de Senlis
Mayor Alexis Patria
(2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation 62–123 m (203–404 ft)
(avg. 70 m/230 ft)
Land area1 33.11 km2 (12.78 sq mi)
Population2 320  (1999)
 - Density 10 /km2 (26 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 60241/ 60300
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Fontaine-Chaalis is a small village in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune within the département of Oise.

On 3 March 1974 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed in this commune, in the Ermenonville Forest.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Accident Details." Accident to Turkish Airlines DC-10 TC-JAV in the Ermenonville Forest on 3 March 1974 Final Report. French State Secretariat for Transport. 1. Retrieved on 13 February 2011.