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Spanair crash 2008
Crash relatives dispute report
The families of vic­tims of the Spanair plane tragedy say the recently-published crash investigation report fails to address the full causes of the accident and incorrectly lays the blame on the pilots.


Many Canarians lost their lives in the tragedy
Many Canarians lost their lives in the tragedy
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16.02.2010 - According to the relatives, proper account was not taken of a similar previous incident in June 2007 in Lanzarote when the same type of aircraft almost crashed on take-off due to an identical instrument malfunction. A spokesman for the families said the fault of the mechanics who did not remedy a fault in a crucial switch earlier in the day of the Madrid crash had not been investigated properly. The switch had been deac­tivated and as a result did not send the proper warn­ing to the Spanair pilots that the flaps had not deployed properly for take-off. “We do not understand why the authorities have not taken this aspect further in the report. We know the pilots were at fault for not carrying out the proper checks but they were misled by the faulty switch” said the spokesman.

Almost 150 people, many of them Canarians, were killed when the plane crashed seconds after it took off from Barajas Airport in Madrid for Las Palmas.



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