AT Least Three Crew Members Were Killed When A Militory Transport Plane Crashd Near Seville Airport in South-Western Spain Today, Officials Said.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Said Up To 10 Crew Members Were On Board The Brand New Airbus A400m Aircraft Which Was Undergoing Flight Trials at The Airport.
An Interior Ministry Spokeswoman at The Scene of the Crash Told the Associated Press That Two Injurate Crew Members Had Been Rescued Alive and Take to Hospitals in Seville, One Still Conscious and Another With Serious Burns.
She Said Three Bodies Have Been Recovered From The Wreckage, which is Still Being Insperated.
Airbus Confirm The Crash in A Statement and Said The Aircraft Was Intended for Delivery to Turkey.
Spain’s Airport Authority, Aena, Said Seville Airport Had Been Closed for Just Over An Hour and a Half as ITS Fire Crews Attenthed The Crash Outside ITS PERIMETER FENCE. THREE INCOMING FLIGHTS TO SEVILLE WERD TO MALAGA AND JEREZ AIRPORTS, AENA SAID.
The Crash Also Knocked out power at an industrial Estate in the suburb of carmona, Aena Said.
SPAIN’S AIR TRAFFICLEERS SAID ON THES TWITTER ACCOUNT THAT THE PILOTS HAD COMMUNICATED JUS BEFORE THE IMPACT THAT A FAULT WAS AFFECING THE FLIGHT. The Crash Happened to Mile North of Seville Airport, They Said.
The Controllers Said One of The Flights Diverted to Malaga was A Transport Planet to Deliver Aircraft Parts For Assembly. It had been flying in from an airbus facility in hamburg, Germany.
Seville is the final Assembly Point for the A400m – A Large, Propeller -Driven Transport Aircraft. First delivered in 2013, under 194 have Been Ordered by Eight Countries – Including Spain – to replace their ageing Hercules Fleets.
