Fortunately only a few passengers were minorly injured when a Air Nostrum F50 (Iberia Regional)gets out of Melilla Airport getting into a ditch and crashing into a fence and a road. It´s the first Air Nostrum crash. No casualties. Something to mention about Melilla Airport. Short runway, terrible glide path, lots of mountains and usual fogs, desert hazes and strong winds (bringing sand from Sahara Desert) makes it to be dangerous. Only Iberia Regional flies there. In 1998, a Bae 146 from a local airline called Pauknair crashes into a moutain when landing in low visibility, 40 people were killed.
Today, the plane instead of slowing down, acelerated, so investigators suggest a technical failure
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By: EGNM - 20th January 2003 at 18:23
RE: First Air Nostrum crash
TUTUTUTUTUT- we’ll have to see what comes out here!
By: keltic - 20th January 2003 at 17:21
RE: First Air Nostrum crash
BREAKINGS NEWS FROM SPAIN…….after a blood analysis to the Dutch and canadian pilots……the results shows that….THERE WAS HINTS OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡. Not official confirmation, but it´s a big blow for Demin Air if confirmed.
By: Fokker - 19th January 2003 at 21:18
RE: First Air Nostrum crash
Yep defenitly a DENIM plane. Denim used to be a daughter company of Air Nostrum but is now independent after a management buy out end of 2002.
By: keltic - 18th January 2003 at 16:05
RE: First Air Nostrum crash
It was a Demin air plane. It seems that they suffered from a major failure on the breaks. Someone mentioned F28 crash in Peru (Chachapoyas) when it plunged in a mountain in a CFIT killing all 48 on board. It was a Tans Peru plane, the airline owned by the air force. It seems that this airport lies in a mountainous area, with lots of foggy conditions, and as you know South America is full of old equipment (no TCAS, GWPS), bad equiped airports located in orographically complicated areas. So, the usual stuff.
By: EGNM - 18th January 2003 at 00:33
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phew – the media hype is great in the variations of reports – inncident to accident – overunning the runway to a severe crash – which sounds better – that a/c was actually leased from Air Nostrum and wasn’t the only FK50 i have from them in my log – EC-GQT
By: A330Crazy - 17th January 2003 at 21:21
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Glad to see that no one was fataly injured. Its a shame that there good running track record is now dented.
By: EHVB - 17th January 2003 at 20:27
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Looks like it is PH registrated (can’t read the reg in the picture, anyone can ?), so it must be an aircraft of Demin. Just heard that in South America somewhere, a Fokker F28 was also involved in an incident/accident. No fatalities mentioned. BW Roger
By: keltic - 17th January 2003 at 19:51
RE: First Air Nostrum crash
From Malaga to Melilla and the Binter one you mention, from Melilla to Malaga.
By: Saab 2000 - 17th January 2003 at 19:32
RE: First Air Nostrum crash
That does look like an awful mess from the picture. Glad everybody was safe. Where was the flight going to?Malaga?
On a side note, from this I a reminded of when the Binter Regional CN-235 crashed on approah to Malaga from Melilla when some were not so lucky.
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January 17, 2003 at 6:38 pm