Tetouan – Seville – Alicante

On December 18, 1939 at 08:15 AM, Tetouan – Seville – Alicante experienced a crash involving Junkers JU.52, operated by Iberia - Lineas Aéreas de Espana, with the event recorded near Ceuta Ceuta.

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

9 people were known to be on board, 9 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 3, passengers on board: 6, passenger fatalities: 6, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is terrorism act, hijacking, sabotage. The three engine aircraft christened 'Sanjurjo' left Tetouan Airport in early morning on a flight to Alicante with an intermediate stop in Seville. While cruising over the Mediterranean Sea north of Ceuta at an altitude of some 1,500 feet, the aircraft was shot down by the pilot of a RAF fighter. Out of control, it crashed into the sea off Ceuta, some 10 km south of Punta del Carnero. Rescuers arrived on scene at 0840LT and no survivor was found. Crew: Eugenio Gross Huertas, captain, Ruperto González Fernández, radio operator, José Chacón Mellado, engineer. Passengers: Antonio Bazán Martínez, Manuel Romero Picornell, Agustín Calvo Bronte, Juan José Suárez Maguregui, Juan Carlos Brelezmann Isberner, Henry Charles.

Aircraft reference details include registration M-CABA, MSN 5854, year of manufacture 1938.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 35.8944°, -5.3558°.