Accident | |
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Date | 20 August 2008 |
Summary | Stalled and crashed on take-off due to improper flaps and slats selection |
Site | Madrid–Barajas Airport, Madrid, Spain 40°31′51″N 003°34′14″W / 40.53083°N 3.57056°W |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | McDonnell Douglas MD-82 |
Aircraft name | Sunbreeze |
Operator | Spanair |
IATA flight No. | JK5022 |
ICAO flight No. | JKK5022 |
Call sign | SPANAIR 5022 |
Registration | EC-HFP |
Flight origin | Barcelona–El Prat Airport |
Stopover | Madrid–Barajas Airport |
Destination | Gran Canaria Airport |
Occupants | 172 |
Passengers | 166 |
Crew | 6 |
Fatalities | 154 |
Injuries | 18 |
Survivors | 18 |
Spanair Flight 5022 or (JK5022/JKK5022) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport to Gran Canaria Airport, Spain, with a stopover in Madrid–Barajas Airport that crashed just after take-off from runway 36L at Madrid-Barajas Airport to Gran Canaria Airport at 14:24 CEST (12:24 UTC) on 20 August 2008. The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, registration EC-HFP. Of the 172 passengers and crew on board, 154 died and 18 survived.[1][2]
It was the only fatal accident for Spanair (part of the SAS Group) in the 25-year history of the company, and the 14th fatal accident and 24th hull loss involving the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft. It was Spain's deadliest accident since the 1983 crash of Avianca Flight 011.[3]
The accident further worsened Spanair's already negative image at the time[4] and exacerbated its financial difficulties. Spanair subsequently ceased operations on 27 January 2012.[5][6]