Plane crash near Agadir
| Plane crash near Agadir | |
|---|---|
 Identical Boeing 707 from Alia |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Loss of control after CFIT |
| place | At Imzizen, 40 km northwest of Agadir , Morocco |
| date | 3rd August 1975 |
| Fatalities | 188 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 707-321C |
| operator | Alia |
| Mark | JY-AEE |
| Departure airport | Le Bourget Airport |
| Destination airport | Inezgane Airport |
| Passengers | 181 |
| crew | 7th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The plane crash near Agadir occurred in the early morning of August 3, 1975. An Alia Boeing 707 crashed on a charter flight on behalf of Royal Air Maroc from Paris to Agadir when it brushed a mountain and crashed after another ten kilometers. It was both the worst aircraft accident involving a Boeing 707 and the worst in Morocco .
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The aircraft was an eleven-year-old Boeing 707-321C with the air vehicle registration JY-AEE, with four Pratt & Whitney Jt3d equipped -3B engines.
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The aircraft, which took off from Paris at 2:20 a.m., was approaching from 8000 ft (2440 m ) to land on runway 29 at Inezgane Airport ( ⊙ ) in Agadir when the aircraft was in the thick fog with its right wing tip at 2400 ft (730 m) brushed against a mountain and tore off parts of the right wing together with engine no. 4 (far right). The plane flew another ten kilometers southwest before the pilots lost control and at 4:25 a.m. the plane crashed into a ravine about 275 m from the village of Imizien. The impact and the resulting explosion caused a forest fire in the surrounding forest. All 188 occupants, including 177 Moroccan passengers, were killed.
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- Accident report B-707 JY-AEE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 4, 2018.
- Information about the accident on Flugunfalls.de
- New York Times article about the accident
Coordinates: 30 ° 42'25 " N , 9 ° 49'26" W.