Fontaine-Chaalis

Fontaine-Chaalis
The town hall in Fontaine-Chaalis
Location of Fontaine-Chaalis
Fontaine-Chaalis
Fontaine-Chaalis
Coordinates: 49°10′19″N 2°41′03″E / 49.1719°N 2.6842°E / 49.1719; 2.6842
CountryFrance
RegionHauts-de-France
DepartmentOise
ArrondissementSenlis
CantonNanteuil-le-Haudouin
IntercommunalitySenlis Sud Oise
Government
  Mayor (20202026) Alexis Patria
Area
1
33.11 km2 (12.78 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)
326
  Density9.8/km2 (26/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
60241 /60300
Elevation62–123 m (203–404 ft)
(avg. 70 m or 230 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Fontaine-Chaalis (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃tɛn ʃali]) is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.

On 3 March 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, crashed within the political boundaries of the commune, in the state-owned Ermenonville Forest.