Rota - Souda Bay

On June 3, 1972 at 12:00 AM, Rota - Souda Bay experienced a crash involving Lockheed P-3 Orion, operated by United States Navy - USN, with the event recorded near Jebel Musa Tangier-Tétouan.

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

14 people were known to be on board, 14 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 4, crew fatalities: 4, passengers on board: 10, passenger fatalities: 10, other fatalities: 0.

About an hour after its departure from Rota NAS, Spain, while cruising at an altitude of 800 meters in marginal weather conditions, the four engine aircraft struck the slope of Jebel Musa (851 meters high) located near the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. The aircraft was destroyed and all 14 occupants have been killed. Attached to Brunswick Air Base, Maine, the airplane was completing a routine flight from Rota NAS to Souday BAY AFB, Chania, Greece.

Aircraft reference details include registration 152182, MSN 185-5152, year of manufacture 1965.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 35.8990°, -5.4130°.