Date:	Friday 2 October 1964
Time:	04:45
Type:	Douglas DC-6B
Owner/operator:	Union de Transports Aériens - UTA
Registration:	F-BHMS
MSN:	44062/384
Year of manufacture:	1953
Total airframe hrs:	29620 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-2800
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 80 / Occupants: 80
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Mt Alcazaba -   Spain
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI/LEPA)
Destination airport:	Port-Étienne Airport (NDB/GQPP)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
A Douglas DC-6 passenger plane, F-BHMS, was destroyed when it crashed into a Mount Alcazaba in Spain. All 73 passengers and seven crew members were killed.
The UTA flight departed Paris on an international flight to Port-Étienne (now Nouadhibou, Mauritania) with en route stops at Marseilles, France and Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The trip to Palma was uneventful.
The DC-6 took off at 03:14 UTC from Palma runway 27. While heading for Tanger the flight deviated from the planned route. The plane struck a mountain 90 minutes after takeoff.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The cause of the accident was not determined."

ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest No.16 - Volume III, Circular 82-AN/69 (94-96)

photo (c) Mel Lawrence; Tokyo-Haneda Airport (HND); April 1961

photo (c) Jerry Hughes; London-Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK); 1964

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