Saleh Hachad

Salah Hachad
Native name
صالح حشاد
Born1938 (age 86–87)
Oulad Ayyach, Beni Mellal, Morocco
Allegiance Morocco
BranchRoyal Moroccan Air Force
Years of service1957–1972
RankSquadron leader
ServiceCold-War era air patrols

Salah Hachad (Arabic: صالح حشاد; born 1938) is a retired Moroccan fighter pilot and former squadron leader in the Royal Moroccan Air Force. One of the country’s earliest jet aviators, he became embroiled—willingly or otherwise—in the 1972 Moroccan coup attempt, was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment and spent eighteen of them in the secret Tazmamart desert jail. Freed in 1991, he later recounted his experiences in a widely viewed 2009 televised interview series.

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