Spanair, the owners of a Spanish airliner that crashed on takeoff at Madrid airport nine days ago, initially considered replacing the plane Spanair acknowledges mechanical problems following crash ...
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Protests against high fuel prices spread in Spain ... shortly before the disaster. Spain's Transport Minister Magdalena Alvarez told a parliamentary panel that Spanair indicated to the airport that it wanted to change planes, after a mechanical fault disrupted the first attempt to takeoff. After reviewing the fault, Spanair decided to allow the MD-82 aircraft to fly. It crashed on its second attempt to takeoff, killing 154 passengers and crew. In her testimony, Alvarez dismissed speculation that the crash happened because Spanair, a subsidiary of the Scandinavian SAS group, was in financial difficulties.
(Deutsche Welle)
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