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| Date: | Tuesday 26 July 2011 |
| Time: | 09:00 |
| Type: |  Lockheed C-130H Hercules |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Moroccan Air Force |
| Registration: | CNA-OQ |
| MSN: | 4892 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Engine model: | Allison T56-A-15 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 80 / Occupants: 80 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 10 km E of Goulimime Airport (GLN) -
 Morocco
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Dakhla (Villa Cisneros), Western Sahara (VIL/GMMH) |
| Goulimime Airport (GLN) |
A Royal Moroccan Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane was destroyed in an accident near Goulimime (also known as Guelmim). Seventy-eight occupants were killed instantly and two survived. Both survivors later died. The airplane carried nine crew members, 60 troops and 11 civilians. It operated on a flight from Dakhla to Kinitra with an en route stop at Goulimime.
Sources:
BBC
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Düsseldorf Airport (DUS/EDDL); March 1999
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