The owners of a Spanish airliner that crashed on takeoff at Madrid airport nine days ago had considered transferring passengers to another plane, only minutes before the disaster.
The Spanair plane bound for the Canary Islands was then given the OK, before it crashed, killing 154 people. Transport Minister Magdalena Alvarez told parliament that just before the plane took off, the pilot noticed a technical problem. The pilot called off his first takeoff attempt, but after a further inspection, the DNA tests for Madrid air victims ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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