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Marrakech – A light aircraft crashed Tuesday morning in a douar in the rural commune of Aghouatim, Al Haouz Province, injuring its pilot and prompting a wide security mobilization across the area.
According to initial reports, the pilot sustained injuries of varying severity and was rushed to a hospital for emergency treatment, though no official update on their medical condition had been released at the time of reporting. No deaths or material damage were recorded among local residents, but inhabitants described scenes of shock and panic following the unexpected incident.
Several converging reports identified the aircraft as a light military training plane, with one source indicating the pilot was transported to a military hospital. No official confirmation of the aircraft’s exact type or mission had been issued, however.
Upon receiving word of the incident, units of the Royal Gendarmerie led by the provincial commander arrived at the site alongside civil protection teams and local authorities. Security forces quickly established a tight cordon around the wreckage, securing the perimeter to facilitate rescue operations and technical inspections while the pilot was medically evacuated.
A judicial investigation was opened under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor’s office. Technical and judicial teams are conducting field examinations of the wreckage to determine the cause and full circumstances of the crash, which remain unknown.
Tuesday’s incident is the third light aircraft accident in Morocco in less than a month. On June 21, two French nationals were killed when their light plane went down near Al Hoceima’s Cherif Al Idrissi Airport. The aircraft had made an emergency landing at the airport to refuel after reporting a technical malfunction.
After repairs were carried out and the plane was cleared for takeoff, it went down approximately three minutes after departure. The pilot died at the scene, while his companion succumbed to her injuries en route to the hospital.Â
On July 2, a Royal Gendarmerie pilot was killed when his surveillance aircraft went down in the Maamora Forest near Temara. The plane, registered as CN-AZV, was a turbine-powered Air Tractor variant used for forest fire monitoring.
It crashed around 5:30 p.m. while conducting an aerial reconnaissance mission during a fire that burned roughly three hectares. Authorities clarified at the time that the aircraft was performing surveillance to track the blaze and guide response teams, not conducting water-dropping operations, contrary to early reports that described it as a firefighting plane.
No official military statement on Tuesday’s crash had been released at the time of publication.
