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Goussainville (French pronunciation: [ɡusɛ̃vil] ⓘ) is a commune in the department of Val-d’Oise, northern France.[3] It is located 20.6 km (12.8 mi) north-northeast from the centre of Paris, near Charles de Gaulle Airport. Goussainville is part of the urban unit (agglomeration) of Paris.[3] The old village Goussainville, 2 km south of the current town centre, is known as a ghost town.[4]

1973 air show crash

The Hôtel de Ville

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.[5]

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.”[6][7]

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.[8]

The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1995.[9]

Population

Transport

Goussainville is served by two stations on Paris RER line D: Goussainville and Les Noues. Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport is located 9 km (5.6 mi) away, which is a 15 minutes drive from Goussainville.

Education

As of 2016, 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.[12]

Junior high schools

  • Collège Pierre Curie
  • Collège Georges Charpak[13]
  • Collège Montaigne[14]
  • Collège Robespierre

Senior high schools:

See also

References

  1. ^ “Répertoire national des élus: les maires”. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. ^ “Populations de référence 2023” (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
  3. ^ a b Commune de Goussainville (95280), INSEE
  4. ^ “The ghost town of Goussainville”. Reuters. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  5. ^ “Russian SST crashes”. Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington, U.S. Associated Press. 4 June 1973. p. 1. Archived from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  6. ^ “French ghost town deserted for 40 years – thanks to Charles de Gaulle”. uk.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
  7. ^ Holt, Ophelia (2014-08-15). “40 Years of Vacancy in the Eerie Paris Ghost Town of Goussainville”. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
  8. ^ Ranter, Harro. “ASN Aircraft accident Aérospatiale / BAC Concorde 101 F-BTSC Gonesse”. Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  9. ^ “La Ville et Son Histoire”. Guide de La Ville. 2017. p. 11. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
  10. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d’aujourd’hui: Commune data sheet Goussainville, EHESS (in French).
  11. ^ Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
  12. ^ “Les établissements Archived 2016-09-11 at the Wayback Machine.” Goussainville. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
  13. ^ Home. Collège Georges Charpak de Goussainville. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
  14. ^ Home. Collège Montaigne. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
  15. ^ Home. Lycée Romain Rolland. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.