Goussainville, Val-d'Oise

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. Sixty people on the ground were injured. In 1974, a year after the Tupolev Tu-144 crash, Charles de Gaulle Airport opened, putting Goussainville directly under the flight path to a busy airport. The noise of aircraft flying low overhead became a major disturbance and acted as a "constant reminder of the deadly crash." 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 Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1995. ==Population==

Goussainville is served by two stations on Paris RER line D: Goussainville and Les Noues. Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport is located away, which is a 15 minutes drive from Goussainville. ==Education==

, there are 1,718 pupils in 13 public pre-schools and 2,782 elementary school pupils in 13 public primary schools. There are a total of 19 campuses with a total of about 4,500 students. Junior high schools • Collège Pierre Curie • Collège Georges Charpak • Collège Montaigne • Collège Robespierre Senior high schools: • Lycée Romain Rolland ==See also==