1975 Agadir Royal Air Maroc Boeing 707 crash
1975 passenger plane crash in Agadir, Morocco / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On August 3, 1975, Royal Air Maroc chartered a Boeing 707 passenger flight from Le Bourget Airport in Paris to Inezgane Airport in Agadir which crashed into a mountain on approach to Agadir Inezgane Airport, Morocco. All 188 passengers and crew on board were killed. It is the deadliest aviation disaster involving a Boeing 707, as well as the deadliest in Morocco.[1]
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Accident | |
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Date | August 3, 1975 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error |
Site | Near Tamri, Morocco |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Boeing 707-321C |
Operator | Jordanian World Airways on behalf of Royal Air Maroc |
Registration | JY-AEE |
Flight origin | Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France |
Destination | Inezgane Airport, Agadir, Marocco |
Occupants | 188 |
Passengers | 181 |
Crew | 7 |
Fatalities | 188 |
Survivors | 0 |
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