Spanair Flight 5022

40.530318 - 3.569731Koordinaten: 40 ° 31 ' 49 "N, 3 ° 34 ' 11 " W

The accident EC- HFP in March 2008

Flight JK 5022 was a scheduled flight of the Spanish airline Spanair MD -82 crashed on the used 20 August 2008 McDonnell Douglas at the start on the airport Madrid- Barajas to a malfunction of the buoyancy aids. 154 of 172 people on board were killed.

The flight, which should lead to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, was carried out in code-sharing with Lufthansa and also contributed with flight number LH 2554th

Aircraft

In the crashed plane, it was a McDonnell Douglas MD -82, which was equipped with two engines of the type Pratt & Whitney JT8D -219. The aircraft with the serial number 53148/2072 made ​​its maiden flight on 1 November 1993 and was delivered on 18 November 1993 at Korean Air. Since July 1999 it flew for Spanair with the aircraft identification EC- HFP.

Course

The accident occurred 14:24 clock (CEST ) in clear weather conditions. Immediately after take-off the aircraft at low altitude burst laterally out, hit right from the runway to the site on and burned out.

148 of the 166 passengers and all 6 crew members were killed, and the remaining 18 passengers were injured, some seriously. Among the dead were located next to Spanish citizens and at least 14 people from nine other nations, including five people from Germany, 2 from France and 1 person each from Bulgaria, Brazil, Gambia, Indonesia, Italy, Mauritania and Turkey.

It was the first major plane accident in Spain since the crash of flight 610 of Iberia in Bilbao on 19 February 1985.

The crash of the machine was taken by a declaration addressed to the runway surveillance camera of Madrid- Barajas.

Investigations

On 20 August 2008, the Minister issued a first opinion for infrastructure Magdalena Álvarez. Your ministry is also subject to the Spanish investigation Authority Comisión de Investigación de aviation accidents Accidentes e Incidentes for Civil Aviation. They confirmed that the aircraft broke out shortly after starting to the right and then crashed. They also confirmed that accident experts have recovered the two flight recorders, one of which was damaged, and that there was no evidence of a terrorist attack.

The analysis of the flight recorders revealed that the buoyancy aids of the aircraft were not extended at the start to the start position. The space provided alarm sound was not noticeable throughout the CVR recording. The representations referred to in various media and allegedly ignored by the pilots during the take-off run alarms come from after picking up becoming active stall or Ground Proximity Warning System. A malfunction of the engine or an engine fire could not be seen in this evaluation. The investigation into the final accident report lasted until 2010.

After the final report, published on 29 July 2011, the cause of the accident was that the crew has lost immediately after the start of the control of the aircraft. The aircraft was not properly configured to start because the buoyancy aids were not extended.

Response of European aviation authority

As a result of the accident European airlines had to carry out new security checks before starting. This affected the time around 180 machines manufactured by McDonnell -Douglas, and thus mainly Spanair, Alitalia and SAS Scandinavian Airlines is the largest operator. As of March 2014, no machines of the type more were with Alitalia and SAS Scandinavian Airlines in use, Spanair end of January 2012 the flight ceased operations completely.