2018 Paris PIC: Alouette 2 burnt after prison break success.

[Stratofreighter]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44673753

A notorious gangster has escaped by helicopter from a prison in the Paris region, the French authorities say.

Redoine Faid was helped by several heavily armed men who created a diversion at the prison entrance while the helicopter landed in the courtyard.

The helicopter flew to the nearby Gonesse area. It was then found burnt out by local police.

http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/l ... 802463.php

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/r ... 76311.html

Firefighters standing near the site where French robber Redoine Faid abandoned a French helicopter Alouette II after his escape from prison in Reau

Pictures thru
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/r ... 76311.html

[frank kramer]

Vandals! It looks like F-GIJE, which is SE313B c/n 1003 and is (was?) the oldest flying Alouette II in the world...

[Frank Mink]

Hi all,
Just another pic with “1003” visible on nose.
https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/beruchte-b ... ~ac4ecb6f/

Greetz,
Frank Mink
www.tristaraviation.org

[Wrecks]

Hi all,
Just another pic with “1003” visible on nose.
https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/beruchte-b ... ~ac4ecb6f/
Greetz, Frank Mink

Colours and 1003 match F-AZYQ (ex F-GIJE, ex ALAT)

[Le Addeur noir]

Coded BGL as with the ESALAT at Dax in May 1984.

It doesn't look like a total write-off.

[Stratofreighter]

...well, at least he got caught again...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45729071

Rédoine Faïd: French helicopter jailbreak gangster captured

6 hours ago

Rédoine Faïd, a French gangster who broke out of jail using a hijacked helicopter in July, has been recaptured.

The country's most wanted fugitive, he was detained north of Paris, reportedly with his brother and two men.

He was first arrested in 1998 for armed robbery. The 1 July jailbreak was his second and most dramatic escape.

He was sprung from a prison in Réau, south-east of Paris, by three heavily armed men who broke into the visitors' room.

They then bundled him into a helicopter flown by a flying instructor who had been taken hostage.

He was recaptured in the early hours of Wednesday in the town of Creil.