1948 Sabena DC-4 Crash was used by the Belgian airline company Sabena from 17 April 1946 until its destruction in 1948. The aircraft was mostly used in Belgian Congo and carried Regent Prince Charles of Belgium back to Belgium on 13 August 1947 after his official visit to Congo. The Sabena flight departed from Léopoldville-N'Djili Airport, Congo Democratic Republic en route to Libenge Airport, Congo Democratic Republic with 25 passengers and 7 crew members on board. While above the Congo rainforest, 27 km South of Libenge, at an altitude of 700 feet, the aircraft probably penetrated a very turbulent line of clouds or flew
Sabena technics to secure a strategic opening into central and northern Europe markets. 2007: The EADS Sogerma sites in Mérignac and in Tunisia as well as EADS Barfield join Sabena technics Group Sogerma services, originally the MRO services provider at EADS Sogerma and based in Bordeaux, brings to the group a new structure capable of providing further support to both civil and military customers as well as an important design office and an entity dedicated to the training and certification of technicians working on all types of Airbus. Barfield, renamed “Barfield, a Sabena technics company,” based in Miami, Phoenix, Louisville and Bogota,