1964 Mt. Alcazaba Union de Transports Aériens Douglas DC-6 crash

Alcazaba near Granada, Andalusia, Spain, on 2 October 1964, killing all 80 people on board.

[1] The UTA flight took off from Palma de Mallorca Airport, Spain on runway 27 at 3.14am on 2 October 1964 bound for Port-Étienne Airport (Modern day Nouadhibou), Mauritania after having initially started its journey from Paris, France with a stopover in Marseille, France and Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

While on the planned route, the flight contacted Seville at 4:20 am giving an estimate as to when the plane would arrive at its destination and commenting on the weather conditions.

Alcazaba near Granada, Andalusia, Spain, at 4:45 am some 25 km (15.5 miles) from its intended check-in control center Tangier.

[2] The Douglas DC-6B involved, F-BHMS (msn 44062/384) was built in 1953 and was used by Union de Transports Aériens from 1953 until its destruction in 1964.