Emergency on Spanair flight
2008-08-24 16:48
Madrid - Spain's aviation authority says Spanair, the airline involved in a crash that killed 154 people last week, has had another technical problem with one of its aircraft.
Air agency AENA says a Spanair flight from Barcelona to the Canary Island of Lanzarote has made an unscheduled landing at Malaga airport because of an unspecified technical problem.
The plane left Barcelona about 08:00 on Sunday, then diverted to Malaga within an hour. By mid-afternoon, the Spanair plane had still not resumed its flight.
Spanair has told the El Periodico newspaper the stop in Malaga, on Spain's southern coast, was not an emergency landing.
On Wednesday, a Spanair MD-82 bound for the Canary Islands crashed upon take-off in Madrid. The accident killed 154 people.
All 18 survivors are still hospitalised.
- AP