Yowzers, this looks like one of the more unpleasant aborted landings I’ve ever seen…
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From the flight numbers it looks like offloaded at Alicante and positioned back to Casablanca. Bit of a niche route but I'd guess most passengers onboard live in Spain and would much rather prefer to make their own way home if necessary (which I doubt was - Alicante airport in off season would seem like a pretty easy place for a handling agent to come up with a coach!) than be carted all the way back to Morocco - especially after that experience!!
I've had a single bounce on Loganair's ATR at LHR this summer and that was already bad enough. Three bounces would definitely be quite scary.
Surprising to see this. Many Royal Air Maroc Captains are actually officers in the Maroc Air Force.
'Wholly-owned subsidary refers to an organization that has 100% of its shares owned by another company' (Source: Merriem-Watson Dictionary), so basically how can they be "stuck" there if it is in fact the same company?
Based on my experience with Air Maroc, they probably had to find and pay their own way back to Valencia.
I think an acceptance by the aircrew to divert was the best option rather than trying to force the landing and possibly turn the aircraft and passengers into a smoking pile of rubbish on the runway.