After official investigation, it was announced today that Spainair jet that crashed on August 20th, killing 154 people on board, had problems with wing flaps. The flaps were not set for take off, meaning the plane would not have been able to gain altitude. The warning alert...
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The investigation into the August 20 Spanair tragedy in Madrid has determined that human error, not faulty equipment, caused the fatal crash. Earlier reports stated that wing flaps on the plane failed to...
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A true miracle for Kim, who survived from "Final Destination" in Madrid Plane."A stream miraculously saved the life of a British woman hurled, still strapped to her seat, from the exploding Spanair jet.Teacher Kim Tate, 30, was thrown into a stream from the MD-82 jet, in...
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These kinds of stories always come out a few days after something like this happens.Apparently, the month before the fatal crash that happened in Madrid on Wednesday, the airline's workers warned their management...
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"Angry relatives of Madrid crash victims asked yesterday why the aircraft was allowed to fly two hours after it aborted a take-off because of a technical fault. A total of 153 people died on Wednesday when the Spanair aircraft bound for the Canary Islands failed to take off,...
It is being claimed today that a passenger, Ruben Santana Mateo, who wanted to leave the fated plane in which 153 people died after it caught fire on the runway had been refused permission to...
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(Click here to see our coverage from yesterday.)It has been revealed today that the pilots of the plane the crashed in Madrid yesterday, killing around 153 people, had reported a faulty valve on board the...
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"Accident investigators are to scour the wreckage of a plane that crashed at Madrid's Barajas airport, leaving 153 passengers dead. The cause of the air disaster, Spain's worst in 25 years, has not yet been identified but the black box flight recorder was retrieved from the...
Update: August 21, 2008 a Period of mourning and unanswered questions.The photos of the air disaster were taken by AP photographers at the scene.
A part of the fuselage of the Spanair jet that crashed on take...