Paris – Marseille – Palma de Majorque – Nouadhibou – Nouakchott

On October 2, 1964 at 05:45 AM, Paris – Marseille – Palma de Majorque – Nouadhibou – Nouakchott experienced a crash involving Douglas DC-6, operated by Union des Transports Aériens - UTA, with the event recorded near Mt Alcazaba Andalusia.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

80 people were known to be on board, 80 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 7, crew fatalities: 7, passengers on board: 73, passenger fatalities: 73, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The aircraft was flying a scheduled international passenger flight from Paris to Marseilles, Palma de Mallorca and Port-Etienne. The trip to Palma was uneventful and, following receipt of the latest meteorological information available, the aircraft took off from runway 27 for Port-Etienne at 0314 hours GMT. According to its flight plan the air- craft was to check with the following while en route: area control centres at Barcelona, Seville, Casablanca and Dakar and the control tower at Port-Etienne. At 0339 hours, it advised Palma control tower that it was over Ibiza. It reported to Barcelona FIR that it had crossed the FIR boundary at 0401 hours at flight level 100. At 0353 hours, it reported to Seville FIR that it was estimating the FIR boundary at 0401 at flight level 100 and Los Alcazares at 0415 hours. At 0420 hours, it reported having passed Los Alcazares in clear skies at 0415 hours, estimating abeam Malaga at 0500 hours, overhead Tanger at 0524, and Port-Etienne at 1020 hours. This was the last communication from the flight. Seville FIR tried subsequently, without success, to contact the aircraft. The aircraft hit a mountain at 0445 hours.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-BHMS, MSN 44062, year of manufacture 1953.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 36.4313°, -5.1186°.