Southend – Marrakech – Agadir – Fuerteventura – Las Palmas – Dakar

On January 16, 1963 at 12:00 AM, Southend – Marrakech – Agadir – Fuerteventura – Las Palmas – Dakar experienced a crash involving Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer, operated by Bristow Helicopters, with the event recorded near Chbika Guelmim-Es Semara.

The flight was categorized as delivery and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

3 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 3 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The crew departed Southend in the UK on a delivery flight to Nigeria with intermediate stops at Marrakech, Agadir, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas and Dakar. While cruising by night, the crew decided not to land at Agadir and continued directly to Fuerteventura. While approaching the island, the crew elected to contact ATC but without success. Also, as the Fuerteventura NDB was OFF, the crew was unable to receive any signal and in such conditions, decided to return to Agadir. While approaching the Moroccan coast, the pilot was forced to ditch the aircraft 22 km off shore due to a fuel exhaustion. Quickly on site, the crew of a trawler was able to evacuate all three crew members while the aircraft sank and was lost.

Aircraft reference details include registration 5N-ABR, MSN 526, year of manufacture 1958.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 28.0160°, -11.4162°.