Goussainville, Val-d'Oise

Goussainville is a commune in the department of Val-d'Oise, northern France. It is located 20.6 km north-northeast from the centre of Paris, near Charles de Gaulle Airport. Goussainville is part of the urban unit (agglomeration) of Paris.

1973 air show crash
In 1973, Goussainville was the site of the crash of a supersonic Russian Tupolev Tu-144 during the Paris Air Show at le Bourget airport, 8km 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.

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.

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."

Transport
Goussainville is served by two stations on Paris RER line D: Goussainville and Les Noues.

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 Georges Charpak
 * Collège Montaigne

Senior high schools:
 * Lycée Romain Rolland