Date: | Friday 2 October 1964 |
Time: | 04:45 |
Type: | Douglas DC-6B |
Owner/operator: | Union de Transports Aériens - UTA |
Registration: | F-BHMS |
MSN: | 44062/384 |
Year of manufacture: | 1953 |
Total airframe hrs: | 29620 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 80 / Occupants: 80 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Mt Alcazaba -
Spain
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI/LEPA) |
Destination airport: | Port-Étienne Airport (NDB/GQPP) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:A Douglas DC-6 passenger plane, F-BHMS, was destroyed when it crashed into a Mount Alcazaba in Spain. All 73 passengers and seven crew members were killed.
The UTA flight departed Paris on an international flight to Port-Étienne (now Nouadhibou, Mauritania) with en route stops at Marseilles, France and Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The trip to Palma was uneventful.
The DC-6 took off at 03:14 UTC from Palma runway 27. While heading for Tanger the flight deviated from the planned route. The plane struck a mountain 90 minutes after takeoff.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The cause of the accident was not determined."
Sources:
ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest No.16 - Volume III, Circular 82-AN/69 (94-96)
Location
Images:
photo (c) Mel Lawrence; Tokyo-Haneda Airport (HND); April 1961
photo (c) Jerry Hughes; London-Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK); 1964
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