What the records say
- When
- 13 Sep 1982
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 36.66° N, 4.48° W
- Description
- Spantax 995 flight that crashed during the takeoff at Malaga's Airport
- Deaths
- 50
- Injured
- 110
Spantax Flight 995
1982 aviation accident in Spain
Spantax Flight 995 was an international charter flight from Madrid–Barajas Airport to New York via Málaga Airport. On 13 September 1982, when the DC-10 aircraft was rolling for take-off from Malaga, the pilot felt a strong and worsening vibration and aborted the take-off.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “el vuelo 995 de Spantax, suspende el despegue del aeropuerto de Málaga, al notar una fuerte vibración, saliéndose de la pista e incendiándose”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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