Sadly written off on 1 October 2008 after a mid-air-collision with Super Etendard serial 38. The accident occured during a four aircraft formation manoeuvre in the oblique plane. Numbers three and four hit eachother with serial 49 crashed into the water some fifteen kilometers north of Roscoff (France), the pilot did not survive. The pilot of serial 38 managed to eject and survived.

This Super Etendard crashed one year after this picture was taken. On 1 October 2008, it collided with Super Etendard Modernisé No. 38 and crashed off the coast of Bretagne.