After Indochina , Cogny went on to become a lieutenant general . In January 1957 , an assassination attempt on General Raoul Salan in Algeria was revealed to have been executed by a former French paratrooper intending to have Salan replaced by Cogny , who nevertheless went on to become commander of French forces in Central Africa by 1963 . On 11 September 1968 , while flying across the Mediterranean , Cogny 's Air France Sud Aviation Caravelle crashed near Nice . Cogny was killed in the crash along with 94 others
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Air France Flight 1611
René Cogny