Something local. Today, it´s the 25 aniversary of the only crash occured in SCQ. In 1978 an Iberia DC-8, used by the Royal Fleet sometimes, skidded out when tried to land in the middle of the runway. Nobody was killed, but caused a deep impact because many important people travelled in the plane. It was a schedule flight from Madrid.
By: EGNM - 3rd March 2003 at 23:43
🙁 very fortunate for your farther – the survivours guilt must have been dreadful esp knowing some of the POB
By: keltic - 3rd March 2003 at 21:33
Essentially, the main problem was due that the pilot misinterpreted the altitude data, and when he realized it was too late to abort the landing. So he landed in the middle of the runway, applied the brakes and went out with 208 passengers on board. They were really lucky….no casualties. The pilot put the electrical systems off before going out, and this avoided the fire on board. At the end there´s a ditch so the fall was quite dramatical. Other event was in 1957 when a Bristol 170 from Santiago crashed in Madrid-Airport when the plane couldn´t reach altitude after an engine failure. One of the persons who survived (because he missed the plane) was my father. 37 on board were killed, among them his two best friends who were going to a wedding as well. The wedding was canceled and my father could never overcome it.
By: EGNM - 2nd March 2003 at 22:18
yea Kabir but most of them only include them if their were deaths involved! thanks Keltic it was just a passing interest but i wont ask you to translate it all for me, thanks for the offer tho!!!!
By: A330Crazy - 2nd March 2003 at 20:07
I did a search on www.airdisaster.com , but there were no matches.
By: KabirT - 2nd March 2003 at 15:56
EGNM there are many sites that give full details of crashes…cant remember them from top of my head but just google it.
By: keltic - 2nd March 2003 at 15:34
Our local newspaper, but it´s in Spanish. www.elcorreogallego.es
and click Santiago at the top. In case you are interested I could translate it for you.
By: EGNM - 2nd March 2003 at 13:37
an interesting picture that – cheers. Do you have any links on the accident – i.e causes etc plse?
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March 2, 2003 at 1:15 pm