Lockheed P-3 Orion crash, Jun 3, 1972 (14 killed), Jebel...

Lockheed P-3 Orion accident on June 3, 1972 near Jebel Musa Tangier-Tétouan, Morocco with 14 fatalities.

A US Navy patrol aircraft on a transit flight from Rota in Spain toward Souda Bay in Crete struck the slope of Jebel Musa near Ceuta on 3 June 1972, about an hour after departure. The crash happened in marginal weather and all 14 occupants died. The squadron history states that no cause could be determined.

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