Date:	Sunday 3 August 1975
Time:	04:25
Type:	Boeing 707-321C
Owner/operator:	Jordanian World Airways
Registration:	JY-AEE
MSN:	18767/376
Year of manufacture:	1964
Total airframe hrs:	39749 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 188 / Occupants: 188
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Amskroud -   Morocco
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG/LFPB)
Destination airport:	Agadir-Inezgane Airport (AGA/GMAA)

Narrative:
A Boeing 707-321C passenger plane, JY-AEE, was destroyed when it crashed near Agadir, Morocco. All 181 passengers and seven crew members were killed.
The aircraft, operated by Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines' charter subsidiary Jordanian World Airways, carried out the flight from Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG), France to Agadir on behalf of Royal Air Maroc.
The aircraft was descending from FL80 for a runway 29 approach when the right wing tip and no. 4 engine struck a peak at 2400 feet altitude. Part of the wing (including the no. 4 engine) separated. Control was lost and the aircraft crashed into a ravine.

Aviation Letter 275 p.6
Flight International 07 August 1975 (170)

photo (c) Michael Bernhard; Frankfurt International Airport (FRA/EDDF); 02 August 1975; (CC:by-sa)

photo (c) Werner Fischdick; Düsseldorf Airport (DUS); 03 January 1975

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