One of the SPANAIR MD-82 jet has made an unscheduled landing at an airport in Spain today, just four days after another plane of the same type operated by the airline crashed at Madrid's airport killing 154 people, the airline said.
The plane landed safely at Malaga on the southern coast after the pilot detected a technical problem and the 141 passengers were put up in a hotel until they could resume their journey, a Spanair spokesman said.
"These types of incidents happen regularly, it is a daily event for all airlines,'' he said.
The plane took off from the north-eastern city of Barcelona and was bound for Lanzarote, in Spain's Canary Islands, a popular holiday destination off the coast of Morocco.
A Spanair flight bound for the Canary Island of Gran Canaria crashed just seconds after it took off from Madrid airport on Wednesday, killing 154 people.
The Spanish government has vowed a full investigation into the crash of the MD-82 plane, the country's worst aviation accident in 25 years.
"We owe this to the victims and passengers. The MD is a type of plane which is flying at the moment and as such it is of interest to global aviation to know exactly what happened,'' Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said yesterday.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment