Plane Crash in Madrid

[benwynn]

Hey Guys,

Just heard on the news that there was a plane crash in Madrid.
Here is a link to the story Plane crash

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Only 26 people have escaped alive after a plane carrying 175 people burst into flames shortly after taking off from Madrid's airport, a rescue official has said.[/quote]

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Research shows the Aviation Herald reported the same aircraft had technical trouble four days ago: "A Spanair McDonnell Douglas MD-82, registration EC-HFS performing flight JK5113 from Lanzarote,CI to Madrid,SP (Spain), diverted to Las Palmas,CI (Spain) due to a generator failure about 30 minutes into the flight. Air Traffic Control understood, that an engine had failed and activated a full emergency response. The landing was normal, passengers disembarked normally. After repairs the flight resumed and arrived in Madrid with a delay of 4 hours."[/quote]
RIP to all those killed

Have a look at this also...MD 80

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[victor_alpha_charlie]

Morning Report on NZ Radio has said that a plane carrying 173 passengers crashed on takeoff from Barajas, Spain on its way to the Canary Islands, and that all on board were killed. They also said it was the second time it tried to takeoff, as it aborted the first takeoff because of 'technical difficulties'.

[beaufighterguy]

Wow what a service history.
RIP to all the folks that got killed but such is life.

[Peppermint]

Saw it on BBC news at about 3am, still trying to contact my brother and his girlfriend who are on their OE.....we think they were on that flight too

RIP to all those who have lost their lives though.

[Mattnz]

Sad news. RIP to all who died on board

[Q300]

Realy sad Hope your brother wasent onboard man.

Edit; Spanair said they have contacted the families of all those on board, There is also a passenger manifest on there site

http://www.spanair.com/web/en-gb/DSite/Lis...-of-passengers/

[Anthony]

Thanks for the link Q300.
Peppermint, I hope your brother is okay and not one of the dead if he was on board.
RIP to those who did die
Ministry of Foreign Affairs I think it was said they thought there weren't any NZers on board.

[Peppermint]

Yeah, he has Australian citizenship I think, but the good news is we had a phone call from him about 20 minutes ago, the taxi driver who was supposed to get them to the airport arrived an hour late, so they missed the flight.

[NZ255]

QUOTE (Peppermint @ Aug 21 2008, 09:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah, he has Australian citizenship I think, but the good news is we had a phone call from him about 20 minutes ago, the taxi driver who was supposed to get them to the airport arrived an hour late, so they missed the flight.

Call it what you wnat but thats great!

Would they have been on the flight?

[benwynn]

Excuse the language-

But #### thats lucky..

RIP to all on-board, those MD80s have been havin heaps of problems latley..

[ardypilot]

Read about this in the Times this morning while waiting for my contact lenes appointment- tragic stuff. RIP to all on board

[Peppermint]

QUOTE (NZ255 @ Aug 21 2008, 10:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Call it what you wnat but thats great!

Would they have been on the flight?

Yeah, more than likely they would have been on it. When I got to talk to him again this morning, he said he'd never ever yell or get annoyed at a taxi driver again.

Understandably, they're worried about flying again...I've tried to tell them that the chances of a crash like that happening is slim to none though.

[Matthew]

This is tragic, RIP to all those who died

Your brother is REALLY lucky !!!

[Daniel]

QUOTE (Peppermint @ Aug 22 2008, 01:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah, more than likely they would have been on it. When I got to talk to him again this morning, he said he'd never ever yell or get annoyed at a taxi driver again.

Understandably, they're worried about flying again...I've tried to tell them that the chances of a crash like that happening is slim to none though.

Wow that is really amazing if he was on that flight
There was something about a passenger being 3 minutes late for check in that was denided travel on the flight.

[victor_alpha_charlie]

Apparently it's the worst air disaster in 20 years one of the news reports said- one of those A320/DC-9 overruns must have been close?

[Naki]

QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Aug 22 2008, 10:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Apparently it's the worst air disaster in 20 years one of the news reports said- one of those A320/DC-9 overruns must have been close?

worst air disaster in EUROPE in 20 years - theres been a few worse ones in Africa, Russia and Asia than this one in recent years