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. The flight was operating in a scheduled international flight set by the airline, and was expected to head for
Tangier,
Morocco after checking in with other area control centers such as
Barcelona and
Seville. 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. It would be the last communication from the flight before it crashed into Alcazaba near
Granada,
Andalusia,
Spain, at 4:45 am some 25 km (15.5 miles) from its intended check-in control center Tangier. Further attempts by Seville to contact the flight failed and confirmed to them that the plane had crashed. When the crash site was reached, it became apparent that there were no survivors among the flight's 80 occupants. ==Aircraft==