Warnings after near-disaster of Lanzarote ignored?

October 8, 2008 · Filed Under Airlines, aircraft accident, spanair · Comment 

MADRID - Nearly seven weeks after the crash of a Spanair machine at the Madrid airport by 154 deaths are new allegations against the Spanish authorities have become loud. A U.S. expert had the Spanish authorities have indicated in January against the danger of such a disaster warned. “But the leaders in Spain have nothing,” said American James W. Hudspeth of the Madrid newspaper El Pais “(Sunday edition). Read more

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Spanair crash: concatenation of errors and breakdowns

September 23, 2008 · Filed Under Aircraft, aircraft accident, airline industry · 1 Comment 

 

 

MADRID (Reuters) - The exact details of the plane disaster in Madrid are not yet known. But a month after the crash of Spanair machine known broadly as the worst accident in since the Spanish came 25 years. Contrary to initial assumptions played neither an engine fire or a problem with the reverse thrust of the airplane a role.

The crash of the accident machine of the type MD-82 seems more due to a fateful chain of breakdowns and mistakes due to be.

Spanair than the machine on the 20th August with 172 people on board from Madrid-Barajas airport to Gran Canaria should stand out, they started without extended “flaps”. These are the landing flaps on the rear side of the wing, the will boost. The alarm of the pilots in such a case should warn, did not work. The jet lifted only a few meters from the ground, prallte three on the ground and smashed in a river valley. 154 people died, 18 survived the inferno seriously injured. Read more

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Virgin Galactic aircraft presents for space tourists

July 29, 2008 · Filed Under Aircraft · Comment 

NEW YORK (AP) - up for the dreams of space tourists: The British billionaire Richard Branson, on Monday in the Californian Mojave desert his long-awaited carrier for private. “We call it” Eve “after my mother’s Eve Branson, but also because it is first and a new beginning,” said the entrepreneur faces a number of invited guests, as his company announced.

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The plane is made of carbon fiber (Carbon) manufactured, which is a slight but very reliable composite material. The wings Holm is claimed to more than 42 meters, the longest single section in the ever made of carbon produced. The machine is so low on energy as yet no in history, said Branson. “The system will allow thousands of people to make their dream come true, and it is the access of all people to change it.” Read more

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