Spanair flight 5022

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Coordinates: 40 ° 31 ′ 49.1 ″  N , 3 ° 34 ′ 11 ″  W.

Spanair flight 5022
Spanair MD82 EC-HFP.jpg

The aircraft involved in the accident in March 2008 at Madrid-Barajas airport
Accident summary
Accident type Stall at take-off due to not activated buoyancy aids
place Madrid
date August 20, 2008
Fatalities 154
Survivors 18th
Injured 18th
Aircraft
Aircraft type McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82 (MD-82)
operator Spanair
Mark EC-HFP
Surname Sunbreeze
Departure airport Madrid-Barajas Airport
Destination airport Gran Canaria Airport
Passengers 166
crew 6th
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Flight JK 5022 was a scheduled flight of the Spanish airline Spanair , on which the deployed McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82 (MD-82) crashed on August 20, 2008 at take-off at Madrid-Barajas airport after a misconfiguration of the buoyancy aids . 154 of the 172 people on board were killed.

The flight, which was supposed to lead to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , was carried out in code sharing with Lufthansa and also had its flight number LH 2554 .

Aircraft

The aircraft involved in the accident was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82 (MD-82) , which was equipped with two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 engines. The aircraft with the serial number 53148/2072 completed its maiden flight on November 1, 1993 and was delivered to Korean Air on November 18, 1993 . Since July 1999 it flew for Spanair with the aircraft registration EC-HFP . At the time of the accident, the machine was specially painted in Star Alliance .

course

Sketch of the scene of the accident

The accident occurred at 2:24 p.m. ( CEST ) in clear weather conditions. Immediately after take-off, the aircraft broke sideways at a low altitude, hit the right of the runway on the site and burned out.

148 of the 166 passengers were killed, as were all 6 crew members. The remaining 18 passengers were injured, some seriously. Among the dead were Spanish citizens and 19 people from nine other nations, including 5 people from Germany, 2 from France and 1 each from Bulgaria, Brazil, Gambia, Indonesia, Italy, Mauritania and Turkey.

It was the first major air accident in Spain since the accident on the flight 610 of Iberia in Bilbao on February 19 1985th

The crash of the machine was recorded by a surveillance camera aimed at the runway at Madrid-Barajas Airport.

The Spanish daily ABC reported that worried passengers wanted to leave the plane before the fatal take-off.

Investigations

On August 20, 2008, the Minister for Infrastructure Magdalena Álvarez issued an initial statement. The Spanish Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority, Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación Civil, is also subordinate to your ministry . She confirmed that the plane swerved to the right shortly after take-off and then had an accident. She also confirmed that accident experts had recovered the two flight recorders , one of which was damaged, and that there was no evidence of a terrorist attack .

The flight recorder evaluation showed that the aircraft's lifting aids were not extended to the take-off position when taking off. The intended alarm sound was not audible during the entire CVR recording. The alarms mentioned in various media presentations and allegedly ignored by the pilots during the take-off run come from the stall or ground proximity warning system that became active after take-off . A malfunction of the engines or an engine fire could not be identified in this evaluation. The investigations into the final accident report lasted until 2010.

According to the final report published on July 29, 2011, the cause of the accident was that the crew lost control of the aircraft immediately after take-off. The aircraft was not configured correctly for take-off because the buoyancy aids were not extended.

European Aviation Authority response

As a result of the accident, European airlines had to carry out new safety checks before take-off. At the time, around 180 aircraft from the manufacturer McDonnell-Douglas and thus mainly Spanair , Alitalia and SAS Scandinavian Airlines as the largest operators were affected . As of March 2014, Alitalia and SAS Scandinavian Airlines no longer operated any machines of this type; Spanair completely ceased flight operations at the end of January 2012.

Representation in the media

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spanair EC-HFP (McDonnell Douglas MD-80/90) (Ex HL7204 HL7548) . Airfleets.net. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
  2. ↑ a b Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on May 10, 2010.
  3. ↑ Pelo menos 14 mortos são estrangeiros, um deles brasileiro. sapo.pt, August 21, 2008, archived from the original on August 28, 2008 ; Retrieved November 28, 2010 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  5. ^ Asi fue el accidente de Barajas
  6. ↑ "They won't let us out!" (SZ; date wrong / missing)
  7. ↑ 153 killed in Madrid airport plane crash - Reuters, Aug 20, 2008
  8. ↑ a b Interim Report A-032/2008. (PDF; 439 kB) p. 34 , archived from the original on December 29, 2009 ; accessed on October 16, 2019 (English).
  9. ↑ Error With Flaps May Have Led To Spanair Crash Last Month . Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 3, 2008.
  10. ↑ tagesschau.de: Technical defect caused Spanair crash ( memento from October 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) from October 9, 2008
  11. ↑ Crash: Spanair MD82 at Madrid on Aug 20th 2008, went off runway during takeoff . AVHerald. Retrieved August 11, 2011.
  12. ↑ Airlines have to introduce new security checks. Response to Spanair crash. Spiegel Online , October 29, 2008, accessed November 28, 2010 .

Web links

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