Talk:Spanair Flight 5022

This is all speculation!!
Fire on port engine ??? Crashed beacuse of airspeed ??

The pilot is DEAD and no one knows what happened. As a licensed pilot I can tell you this is just baseless speculation. There is no hard evidence of any issue with the engines yet, and even then, it is not clear if that could have lead to a stall. There are another zilion issues that could match this scenario.

Given that the hull suffered so massive damage it is clear we will not know the cause in a while. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.16.36.23 (talk) 17:28, 21 August 2008


 * Has the pilot been confirmed dead? 80.7.186.169 (talk) 02:47, 22 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, both the captain and first officer. I know they recovered one of their bodies within only a few hours. Hopefully the CVR and DFDR yields some insight. 64.209.16.204 (talk) 05:14, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

WARNING, Times online is WRONG!!
They have misunderstood the death toll number! it is only 45 confirmed by now, watching it live on Spanish TV...David (talk) 15:16, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Turn out they were right afterward. Dead count is now 153 and probably will raise as there are many injured with serious burns. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.9.165.184 (talk) 22:21, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


 * They were right, yes... but they were reporting 150 dead 30 minutes after the crash, when emergency services had only confirmed 50! A lot of speculation there... and sensationalism, not serious journalism. David (talk) 06:25, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Agreed.. i only wanted to comment that they finally were right but only by chance, not justifying their "bet" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.9.164.139 (talk) 10:29, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Fix history
Can an admin fix the history? We have two occurrences of this article. This article was redirected to Spanair Flight 22 after an edit history had been established. I don't care where the article lives, but we have two histories now. --Elliskev 15:29, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

The admon neds to fix the page to be on Spanair Flight 22 to be inline with other articles eg United airlines flight 93 American Airlines Flight 11 and Pan Am Flight 103--Somali123 (talk) 15:32, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

SAS Confirms
SAS has confirmed 166 passengers were on board and that 27 have survived 19 injured. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.169.163.135 (talk) 15:40, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

El Mundo
El Mundo are saying at least 140 dead. The Spanish Emergency services are saying 28 survived the crash but one of the survivors died on the way to hospital, there were 164 passengers aboard and nine crew. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.129.25.58 (talk) 16:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Spanair confirms
Spanair confirms 164 passengers and 9 crew were on board —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.138.147.147 (talk) 16:24, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Move to Spanair Flight 5022
This article should be moved to Spanair Flight 5022, but only an administrator can do so. – Zntrip 16:25, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Please move. The wrong title is being aped on other Wikiepdias, so we're not helping... --Mareklug talk 19:22, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd be quite happy to clear up this issue if I knew what was wrong with the current title. Please explain this. Adambro (talk) 19:34, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The aviation accident project guide says it should be < > Flight < >, without the ICAO or IATA designator, please also refer to all the other accidents with a flight number. MilborneOne (talk) 19:45, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

citation needed
''The Regional Authority in Madrid has so far confirmed that more than 100 people have been killed as a result of the crash. In addition, it has also been confirmed that there were 166 passengers - including two babies, and 6 crew members on board.''

Can anyone provide the official statement from the Regional Authority or a news article to confirm this?

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.60.116.60 (talk • contribs) 16:29, August 20, 2008

BBC news eyewitness
BBC 24 News report eyewitness account that the plain was airborne pas decision speed, rolled due to a left engine failure. The tail snapped on the ground and set a 1 Km2 patch of a ground a light. This prevented the emergency services to reach the plane for 15 to 20 minutes. reported at 17:42 Scubafish (talk) 16:57, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Great journalism... if it was airborne by the laws of physics it would have to be past decision speed... but erhh.. rool due to engine failure?? Not likely, engine out on an md-80 does not cause excessive roll, nothing that is not coutnered byu rudder input. Lets not jump to conclusions on the causes of the crash but I doubt that engine out had much to do with the actual crashing, roll would have to be caused by other failures. Noserider (talk) 09:51, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Other failures? The most likely causes are (1) engine out below V2 or (2) poor piloting. If the plane is below V2 then it is not controllable on only one engine. The plane will fly on two engines below V2 but not one. MD-80 or not. That the a/c rolled the other way it seems that the a/c was over V2 and the pilots overcontrolled. That's my bet, anyway. That there was some other mechanical cause at the same time as the engine failure is a little too unlikely. Paul Beardsell (talk) 08:29, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Of course, if the engine *exploded* then perhaps that caused other systems to fail. Paul Beardsell (talk) 08:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

166 (164 plus two babies), not 164 passengers
There were 166 passengers, not 164, according to spanish media. . The airplane had 15 years old (nine of them operating with Spanair). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jicosa (talk • contribs)

Airport history section not a good fit?
Seems like the 'airport history' stuff should be moved into the article on the airport itself instead of being a part of this article. This article is regarding a specific aircraft/incident/crash, so unrelated stuff like past crashes at the airport seems out of place here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.209.16.204 (talk) 17:45, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I agree.. who added this? What good does add a history about how many planes crashed in Barajas ? I have reviewd many other crashes wikis and non has a "Airport fatalities" section. I think should be removed.. and/or moved to complement the wiki of Barajas international airport. If anyone wants to know about airplane accidents in Barajas then he/she should visit its wiki. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.9.165.184 (talk) 18:26, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I added the section to give a home to an existing piece of info about one of the 1983 accidents. Then I expanded it. Feel free to remove the section if you think it doesn't belong. --Elliskev 18:31, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm not going to argue whether it fits or not, but it's wrong. The collision in 1983 occured while one plane was departing and another turned onto the runway. They weren't both landing at the same time (neither was landing.) Iberia 350 Boeing 727 and Aviaco 134 McDonell Douglas DC-9  Titaniumlegs (talk) 00:03, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Image
I know nothing about image use. Can we use this? If so, what needs to be done? --Elliskev 18:31, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * nevermind. It's in the article now. --Elliskev 19:32, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Section needed on emergency response
I think we could make a separate section on the emergency response for this article. Do any of the news articles cover this angle adequately? __meco (talk) 20:25, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Top image
Presumably that's not the specific plane. Shouldn't there be a note? zafiroblue05 | Talk 21:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Supposedly, it is the same plane... --Hapsala (talk) 00:56, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The aircraft was wearing the Star Alliance livery. http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6269382&nseq=3 //\\ AirbusA346 //\\ (talk) 09:02, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, this picture is wrong. I think it should be removed until a Star Alliance liveried plane can be put up. 89.132.124.3 (talk) 10:05, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The image is of the exact plane involved in the crash, it isn't "wrong", it just happens not to show the exact livery that the aircraft was in yesterday. Whilst a more up to date photo would be nice, having a freely licensed photo of the exact plane at all is valuable. If a more up to date freely licensed photo can be found then by all means this can be replaced but if not then this remains very useful to our readers. Adambro (talk) 10:13, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Philippines Air
What's the relevance of the link to the Philippines Air crash? Bruxism (talk) 21:17, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't see a particular relevance between any of the 'See Also' section, the cause of the crash is unconfirmed (while runway overrun is a possibility, it has not been confirmed yet), the planes listed weren't even of the same type (They were Airbuses, this plane, although similar, was not) 84.45.134.188 (talk) 22:50, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Not only that, but it appears to have crashed way before the end of the runway after getting airborne. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.108.249.161 (talk) 01:45, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Move... again
Could someone move the article back to Spanair Flight 5022? – Zntrip 21:19, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Arwel (talk) 21:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Plane history
This airplane, registered EC-HFP was originally delivered to Korean Air in 1993 and it was registered HL7204 and HL7548. It was leased to Spanair in 1999. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.96.104.219 (talk) 01:41, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Survivors between rows 14 and 17
Is it too soon to post to say that the survivors were between rows 14 and 17?

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2008/graficos/ago/s3/t4_spanair.html

WhisperToMe (talk) 06:25, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Reactions
I removed that section. Expressing condolences is a matter of courtesy and there's no need to mention each political leader who felt the urge to say something. --Matthiasb (talk) 10:21, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Inconsistencies
The article explains that the plan rolls to the left, but th picture shows that the plane rolled right. What is right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.113.113.82 (talk) 10:40, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * IMO, the picture is incorrectly showing the site of crash - halfway along the runway. Too close. From all accounts it should be farther out (maybe beyond the runway length at all).NVO (talk) 14:24, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Indeed - I'd recommend removing that diagram, as it is incorrect and misleading. Radagast (talk) 14:33, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I uploaded the map, which was created by another Commons user (I merely added the English text, removing the Spanish). The placement of the crash actually seems fairly accurate; it could be moved up just a bit, though. Look at the map provided by CNN here or another by El Mundo here. The runways at Barajas are deceptive, due to a considerable displaced threshold on 18R (the threshold is 3232 feet down the runway). Find the airport in Google Earth and you'll see what I'm talking about. - auburn pilot   talk  20:59, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm the original uploader. ¿Something like this: Image:Accidente_barajas_2008_localizacion.png? Don't be try to be so accurate: all the info is approximative, as the black box hasn't yet been analysed and the investigation is open. jynus (talk) 09:18, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Updated. Thanks. - auburn pilot   talk  13:58, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * BBC gives a different map . Discard the CNN map, the plane did not hit the runway straight as it shows. NVO (talk) 14:10, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Redirects needed
Many millions of people know about this disaster. However, only a very small proportion of them know its flight number; a substantial proprotion do not know the company's name. As such, redirects from what those looking for this article are very likely to enter in the search box, to this article, are necessary. These need to include: August 2008 Madrid plane crash, Spanair plane crash.Werdnawerdna (talk) 15:19, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. It would help for those just doing a more general search.--Hourick (talk) 17:11, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Engine on fire or not?
I read on multiple news sites now that witnesses, including another captain in another plane landing when the Spanair took off, that there were no engine fire.

bbc.com

Pfez (talk) 13:34, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * According to the spanish media the video shows that there weren´t a fire until the crash. 91.179.170.221 (talk) 17:04, 23 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Sources also includes the official airport surveillance video (by the airport authority, AENA) as well as what CNN is now reporting. So far, it appears the fire was a result of the crash rather than preceding the crash. 64.209.16.204 (talk) 05:17, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Hull loss

 * "the 14th fatal accident and 24th hull loss involving MD-80 series aircraft..."

Someone needs to explain in the lede what hull loss means. — Hex    (❝  ?!  ❞)   14:59, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I've linked it to hull loss for starters. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:06, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Too many 'deadliest' events listed in the lead paragraph?
There's three different sentences regarding deadliest air disasters. While all three are factual and correct, it seems like it's a bit too long/much/repetitive and takes away focus from the main article content. The lead paragraph need to be a little 'tighter' in wording as well as avoiding risk of putting undue weight on any one single element.

My suggestion: just use a single sentence mentioning deadliest-since-xxx and a single event to compare against, instead of three different ways of looking at it. It doesn't matter to me which sentence stays, but honestly think two of them need to go. Anyone else's take on it? 64.209.16.204 (talk) 18:50, 25 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I have tweaked the lead to simplify it.MilborneOne (talk) 19:08, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Check your maths
Guys, can someone please check their references for surivivors/no. of passengers/number dead? We have 162 passengers, but add up dead+survivors = 172.
 * +10 crew Fletcher (talk) 03:03, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Location off end of runway???
I think the crash was off the end of the runway - contrary to what is show in the ´map´. Please check. Ariconte (talk) 10:03, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * 1) There's no way to tell for sure yet. Let's wait until we get the results of the investigation before making a final call.

Thrust reversers
Thrust reversers are normally employed only while the plane is on the ground, specially just after touching down in a landing to thus contribute to a shorter braking distance.

The second part of the sentence has recently been added, but I feel it distracts from the point I had tried to make when introducing the first half of it.

The fact that the reversers can usually only be employed on the ground means that either the yaw manoeuver started already before the plane got airborne (which seems to contradict the witness reports), or that it had nothing to do with the thrust reversers.

Does anybody mind if I restore the previous state with only the first half of the sentence? -- Syzygy (talk) 11:53, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Disagree: thrust reverses are supposed to be employed on the ground but there is no intrinsic reason they have to be. I'm not sure what mechanisms are available to prevent in-flight deployment, so I'm not sure whether to ascribe it to pilot error or mechanical defect, but regardless, the fact that reversers are (obviously) not supposed to be deployed during takeoff does not mean it did not happen.  Fletcher (talk) 14:18, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * This followup http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,574456,00.html explains that the thrust reverse can only be engaged while the main thrust levers are in a neutral position. (Ie you can only go in reverse when the engines are turned idle.) I have no idea how competent the Spiegel editors are, but it makes sense to me to have a mechanism in place which forbids the engagement of the reversers while airborne. -- Syzygy (talk) 14:27, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * P.S. -- I guess you're right, Fletcher: [] seems to indicate a number of accidents which happened when thrust reversers became operational in flight, so it's either a common defect, or not that hard to engage them. -- Syzygy (talk) 14:33, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I would like to add some few comments just to de-mistify some of the asseverations we were able to read at the press:


 * ::1st:: Possibility of engine 'catastrophic failure' (note that 'catastrophic failure' in maintenance terminology does not actually mean a catastrophe like we see in movies, but a big failure that becomes the engine unserviceable, and normally are not spectacullar at all). There is always a possibility of a catastrophic failure during take-off due to an important amount of reasons, among them ingestion of strange objects (including birds), and normally they does not represent a high risk to the operation, specially when a rather small aircraft like this has more than 14300 ft of runway length. This kind of failure are rather normal and pilots are far well trained to handle it, actually this is a 'must' in every simulator training (that pilots have to pass every six months. Now they say that videos do not reveal an engine explosion. But an engine explosion not allways produce a lot of smoke, and a spectacular light. An engine failure where debris is exphelled from the engine causing subsequent damage can be quite unnoticeable from far away.


 * ::2nd:: Possibility of uncontrolled activation of thrust reverser. Similarly to the previous stated possibility, this also is a normal practice during simulator training, and is not a cause for the crash. Actually there are about a minute or so to control this kind of failure. During take-off, with TOP (Take Off Power) applied, the uncommanded activation of a reverser won't cause the aircraft not to fly. There is a picture where one of the thrust reversers can be seen armed. First of all this does not mean that the pilot activated it intentionally. Its actuation could have been due to pilot intentional activation, a system failure, or due to impacts during the uncontrolled off-runway run.


 * ::3rd:: Aircraft flying with one reverser inoperative. This is not the first time I've seen this kind of operation after a crash. Conincidientially, the TAM F-100 crashed in Brazil last year was flying also with a thrust reverser inoperative, since this device is not allways mandatory (it is not a NO-GO condition under certain circumstances). So it could be possible and safe to operate with a unserviceable reverser. What we don't know is if that 'isolation' of the malfunctioning system would avoid it to arm uncomandedly. The accidents that happened in the past involving such a failure happened because of subsequent damage due to reversers breakage when crew didn't react appropriately.


 * ::4th:: Abnormal take-off run. Apparently nobody noticed this, but I am used to watch this aircraft taking off from 7000 ft.-long runways, using a rather low V1 and compensated runway criteria. They normally operate in that runways even with engine failure after V1. I still cannot understand how come this aircraft used 14300 ft. of take off run and was not able to get airborne (didn't reach enough speed). This would mean a low acceleration rate, something that already happened in other places.


 * ::5th:: Connection of the accident with te previous take-off attempt. There was stated that the failure that caused the first take-off attempt interruption (aborted take-off), had nothing to do with this accident, and this is most probable to be true. But nobody said nothing about the influence that an aborted take-off could have in the next take-off attempt.


 * Normally, when an aborted take-off is produced a substantial ammount of energy is being dissipated by the brake system. Madrid-Barajas is an airport that requires quite an extensive use of brakes by the crews before take-off, after landing and subsequent taxi to ramp position. In this case, the aircraft taxied from apron to the runway. It is normal to use brakes during taxi, and it is normal that during taxi tyres get some temperature that is dissipated after take off, while flying at -50ºC. But in this case, instead of the normal flight, tyres were exposed to a high energy dissipation due to the aborted take-off, and subsequent taxi into apron. It won't surprise me if after this pneumatics pressure fuses were partially opened, and some of them could possibly result partially de-inflated. This could cause an important increase in drag during take-off run and could penalize take-off run.


 * It happened before. And that's why procedure after aborted-take-off require enough time to let tyres cool-down, and pneumatics pressure check before a new take-off attempt could be carried out. There are no clues about this. Obviously CIAIAC members know about this, and will be included in the investigation. But I think this fact should not be ignored.

Eugenio (talk) 19:14, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Some statements in this section that need more clarification:


 * "Thrust reversers are normally employed..."

The correct aviation nomenclature is "deployed," not "employed."


 * "The fact that the reversers can usually only be employed on the ground means that either the yaw manoeuver started already before the plane got airborne...."

Again, not correct nomenclature. When on the ground, a plane may (for various reasons) fail to track the runway centerline during takeoff or landing. It may even swerve off the side of the runway. But, if that happens it is not properly referred to as a "yaw." A yaw is a movement of the airplane about its vertical axis. In flight, the plane yaws when the tail moves to the right or left, to the same degree as the nose of the plane moves in the opposite direction. That can only occur in flight. On the ground, the plane's wheels prevent any yaw about that vertical axis because of the strong friction contact with the runway. To yaw on the ground, the nose wheel would have to move sideways and that would most likely cause that nose gear to collapse and it would also most likely cause one or more main gear tires to blow out, due to severe side loads on them.


 * "I'm not sure what mechanisms are available to prevent in-flight deployment, so I'm not sure whether to ascribe it to pilot error or mechanical defect,...."

For the planes that are designed so that they cannot deploy in flight, there are several layers of safety devices to prevent that from happening. The reason is simple: It could cause almost immediate loss of control by the pilot and that usually means a crash. Some planes (like the DC-8) can deploy reversers inflight, as a form of speed brake. The design on those planes is such that they too have safety devices to prevent inadvertent deployment. The pilot on those planes is allowed to use inflight reversing only within certain strict parameters, so it is still important that inadvertent deployment be prevented by safety designs, on those planes too.

As to possible pilot error causing a deployment of a reverser in flight, that would only happen in a suicide situation. I doubt that the reverser can be deployed in flight on the MD-82, but assuming it was possible, the pilot would have to pull the thrust lever all the way back to the idle position and then reach for the thrust reverse lever, which is located on the front side of that forward thrust lever, and pull it all the way up. No pilot would ever do something like that unless he was intent on committing suicide.


 * "explains that the thrust reverse can only be engaged while the main thrust levers are in a neutral position. (Ie you can only go in reverse when the engines are turned idle.) I have no idea how competent the Spiegel editors are, but it makes sense to me to have a mechanism in place which forbids the engagement of the reversers while airborne. --"

The Spiegal editors apparently don't know much! There is no such thing as a "neutral" position of the thrust levers. Although the thrust is greatly reduced, when the thrust levers are at the idle position, the engines are still developing forward thrust, and that is why thrust reversers are deployed on the groundto eliminate that forward thrust, which helps to shorten the stopping distance during the landing sequence.


 * "-- I guess you're right, Fletcher: 2 seems to indicate a number of accidents which happened when thrust reversers became operational in flight, so it's either a common defect, or not that hard to engage them. -- "

That is not what that article indicates at all. Crashes caused by inflight deployment of reversers, are extremely rarealmost non-existent, in comparison to all other causes. Three of the crashes mentioned in that article are not relevant to the issue of how likely it is that there was an inadvertent deployment in the Spanair crash. The case of the DC-8 in Japan has no relevance because it is normal for the pilot to be able to deploy DC-8 reversers in flight, as a means of causing drag so that the plane can be slowed very rapidly. That is the speed brake system on the DC-8. But, that Captain was mentally ill and determined to deliberately crash that airplane and the method he used was to deploy the reversers in flight, at a time when the airpseed was only at about 130 percent of the stall speed. By deploying the reversers at that critical time (low altitude, just above the runway approach lighting system), the plane's speed was reduced to below the stall speed so fast that the First Office was not able to intervene fast enough to save the plane. That deliberate suicide attempt by the Captain, was the cause of that crash.

Two other accidents mentioned too, are also not relevant: The SWA plane that ran off the end of the snow-covered runway at Chicago Midway airport and the Air France flight that ran off the end of the runway at Toronto. In the former, there was a delay in getting the reversers deployed on the ground after touchdown, but that says nothing about how easy or likely that inadvertent deployment is in flight. And, the Air France reversers were deployed late too, but that was because the plane was landed too fast and too far down the runway in the first place. Again, that accident gives no evidence whatsoever that inadvertent deployment in flight is a "common defect," or that it's "...not that hard to engage them."


 * "This kind [catastrophic] of failure are rather normal and pilots are far well trained to handle it, actually this is a 'must' in every simulator training (that pilots have to pass every six months."

No, not accurate. Catastrophic engine failure is not normal and in fact is extremely rare. Engine failures on the modern jets are very rare to begin with and most of those failures are not catastrophic in nature.

As to pilot training, they only have to go to simulator training once a year, for many of the world's major airlines. Various engine failure scenarios are included in that recurrent curriculum, but most of those simulated failures are not catastrophic in nature, and the pilots do not have to take extraordinary measures, in their checklist procedures, most of the time. The main focus of most of the engine failure scenarios, which pilots must deal with successfully in the simulators, has to do with ensuring the pilot can still fly the airplane with one engine failing at the most critical time.


 * "Possibility of uncontrolled activation of thrust reverser. Similarly to the previous stated possibility, this also is a normal practice during simulator training, and is not a cause for the crash. Actually there are about a minute or so to control this kind of failure. During take-off, with TOP (Take Off Power) applied, the uncommanded activation of a reverser won't cause the aircraft not to fly."

Dead wrong on all points. Pilots are not trained in simulator to deal with an inadvertent reverser deployment during takeoff, or for any other regime of flight, for that matter. If an engine goes into reverse, shortly after the plane lifts off the ground, and while takeoff thrust is being generated, it will crashPERIOD! There is nothing the pilot could do to stop the crash, if that kind of mechanical failure occurred at such a critical time. The 767 Lauda Air crash was caused by a mechanical failure that caused one of the reversers to deploy, when they were more than 20,000 ft. up. The engines were only generating climb thrust at that point, which is considerably less than max Takeoff thrust. Yet, the pilots quickly lost control of the plane, it happened so fast. If a reverser was to deploy inadvertently on just about any modern airliner, right after the plane lifts off the ground, the plane will immediately roll and stall. It will happen so quick that the pilot will be unable to do anything to save the plane.


 * "The accidents that happened in the past involving such a failure happened because of subsequent damage due to reversers breakage when crew didn't react appropriately."

Wrong again. Show me an accident report that says anything like that. The Lauda Air crash happened because one reverser inadvertently deployed and the pilots lost control of the plane almost immediately and they were not able to recover. They were never trained for a situation like that (how to recover if a reverser deploys while the engines are producing high thrust). No pilots have that kind of training. They do know, that if that happens, and they somehow have the time to figure out what happened, before they lose control, then of course they would shut the offending engine down. But, if much thrust is present, then such an inadvertent deployment of one reverser will usually lead to almost instantaneous loss of control. When the plane suddenly rolls upside down and goes into a dive, it might be very hard to read the engine gauges while they are struggling to pull out of that dive.


 * "It won't surprise me if after this pneumatics pressure fuses were partially opened, and some of them could possibly result partially de-inflated. This could cause an important increase in drag during take-off run and could penalize take-off run."

Again, also dead wrong. Overheat fuses, if triggered from tire heat going too high, cause the tires to go totally and completely flat, very rapidly. There is no such thing as partial deflation, if the fuse melts. And, after an abort, the pilots have to refer to a flight manual table that calculates how long they must wait, to attempt a subsequent takeoff. That table incorporates many factors, such as OAT, the top speed obtained before the abort was initiated, and how much the plane weighed at the time, etc.

EditorASC (talk) 12:23, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Update for thrust reverser speculations
spiegel.de posted speculations that one of the thrust reversers was deactivated three days before the crash. http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,574947,00.html 212.59.34.130 (talk) 05:56, 29 August 2008 (UTC)Quality Control 2008-08-29, 05:59 UTC

Airborne/ground sensor failure
According to an article appeared in spanish online newspaper El Mundo on Sept. 7, the airborne/ground sensor of the plane wasn't working well and so it'd explain why the flaps alarm did not sound, as well as the turning on of the de-icing system while on ground, which triggered the temperature gauge de-icing system as stated in the wikipedia article.

Thus it suggests a link between the de-icing sensor and the crash, because failure to sound the flaps alarm on cockpit prevented these from being deployed in take-off procedure, despite the failure of the crew to check out.

source:El Mundo article

The sentence: No link is known between this de-activation and the crash. should be checked-out then... --wyup (talk) 14:58, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

According to October 27 news on ElPais.com, a ground worker declared to judge Javier Pérez that the aircraft's anti-collission lights were on at the moment of refuelling while the plane was parked. The source affirms that this would be a sign that the plane was incorrectly in flight mode, so that would add to the de-icing RAT probe and the TOWS malfunction, wich are all governed by the ground/flight sensor.

According to the preliminary report by the Comisión_de_Investigación_de_Accidentes_e_Incidentes_de_Aviación_Civil published by the media and source #45, the Take-Off Warning System alarm (TOWS, a part of CAWS is controlled and activated in ground-mode by the relay R2-5, which also activates the de-icing system in flight-mode as well as other systems) didn't sound in the cabin during take-off as indicated by the Cockpit_voice_recorder.

source:El Pais.com article

Preliminary Report source (in spanish): Comission Preliminary Report

--wyup (talk) 17:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Spanish Spanair sites
The Spanish Spanair stuff seems to be down at the moment: I do not know why they don't seem to work WhisperToMe (talk) 04:12, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * http://www.spanair.com/web/es-es/DSite/Ultimo-comunicado/
 * http://www.spanair.com/web/es-es/DSite/Listado-de-pasajeros/

Computer virus in ground maintenance system allowed faulty plane to take off
Major media news about SF5022, already Slashdotted:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/ordenador/Spanair/anotaba/fallos/aviones/tenia/virus/elpepuesp/20100820elpepinac_11/Tes

Blame Windows once again. 82.131.131.147 (talk) 17:39, 20 August 2010 (UTC)


 * This is the Google autotranslation, but it's not very readable. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:49, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Spanish reports
These are listed for archival reasons WhisperToMe (talk) 15:35, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
 * http://www.fomento.es/NR/rdonlyres/320E4950-2E91-4DA9-A549-66F3A23EB31D/76734/2008_032_A_PROGRESO_ESP.pdf
 * http://www.fomento.es/NR/rdonlyres/797E0F60-6C38-4F4C-9B39-03E7F9208758/52774/2008_032_A_INTERINO_01.pdf
 * http://www.fomento.es/NR/rdonlyres/25F8919F-204C-47D5-BF3A-8CC3E2D11347/41174/REC_01_09.pdf
 * http://www.fomento.es/NR/rdonlyres/7E9860AA-97F4-451B-811A-BAF81882FBD5/43299/2008_032_A_preliminar.pdf

Table
After creating the table I realised that it was hard to create one because, first of all the "survivors" had to be defined if they survived the crash/and died on route to hospital, or if they survived completely? I need some help with this :) Bezuidenhout (talk) 20:09, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Nationalities infobox
There are a number of inaccuracies in this table:
 * The number of survivors is given as 26, when it was actually 18.
 * The number of crew is given as 10, it should be 6.
 * Three non-Spanish survivors are shown, there were only two.
 * The nationality of 22 survivors is given as "other", although most of these were presumably Spanish.

While the table is clearly wrong according to the final report (section 1.2 refers), the report doesn't contain the level of detail needed to correct it. It is better to omit this table entirely rather than have such errors in the article, so I have moved it here until it can be fixed.

82.1.57.194 (talk) 12:23, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

CIAIAC info
Spanish/English webpages:
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/ORGANOS_COLEGIADOS/CIAIAC/INVESTIGACION/2008/032_2008_FINAL.htm
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642S3zb9M
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/ORGANOS_COLEGIADOS/CIAIAC/INVESTIGACION/2008/SPANAIR/default.htm
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642S5zsP9
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/ORGANOS_COLEGIADOS/CIAIAC/REC_01_09.htm
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642SGxoeK
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/ORGANOS_COLEGIADOS/CIAIAC/INVESTIGACION/2008/SPANAIR/INTERINO.htm
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642SLrE4Z
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/ORGANOS_COLEGIADOS/CIAIAC/INVESTIGACION/2008/SPANAIR/PROGRESO.htm
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642SO5F3K
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/ORGANOS_COLEGIADOS/CIAIAC/INVESTIGACION/2008/SPANAIR/PRELIMINAR.htm
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642SPvZMm

English documents: Spanish documents: WhisperToMe (talk) 03:21, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/NR/rdonlyres/EC47A855-B098-409E-B4C8-9A6DD0D0969F/107087/2008_032_A_ENG.pdf
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642QTQxBU
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/NR/rdonlyres/84942CEB-0B4F-4918-9D42-02F520EB315A/41178/REC_01_09_ENG.pdf
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642QYeIKR
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/NR/rdonlyres/AADDBF93-690C-4186-983C-8D897F09EAA5/75736/2008_032_A_INTERINO_01_ENG.pdf
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642QaEKaF
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/NR/rdonlyres/0C2AC4C7-8183-42D6-9CB9-AFDF6EBA71C3/76745/2008_032_A_PROGRESO_ENG1.pdf
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642Qf4yPN
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/NR/rdonlyres/2CC3ADCB-6E59-43CF-98D3-8D119FEE30D9/76728/PreliminaryReportA_032_2009.pdf
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642QgvXnR
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/NR/rdonlyres/C4A41FC7-89D7-42C5-B5F1-7DC96ACD287F/105210/2008_032_A.pdf
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642QlrYPK
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/NR/rdonlyres/25F8919F-204C-47D5-BF3A-8CC3E2D11347/41174/REC_01_09.pdf
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642RSp8ah
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/NR/rdonlyres/797E0F60-6C38-4F4C-9B39-03E7F9208758/52774/2008_032_A_INTERINO_01.pdf
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642RVbwge
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/NR/rdonlyres/320E4950-2E91-4DA9-A549-66F3A23EB31D/76734/2008_032_A_PROGRESO_ESP.pdf
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642Re8Uam
 * http://www.fomento.gob.es/NR/rdonlyres/7E9860AA-97F4-451B-811A-BAF81882FBD5/43299/2008_032_A_preliminar.pdf
 * http://www.webcitation.org/642RfprYu

Also the report has been posted to http://www.abc.es/gestordocumental/uploads/nacional/informeSpanair.pdf WhisperToMe (talk) 00:49, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Law office links
By Kriendler & Kriendler LLP WhisperToMe (talk) 08:43, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * English: http://www.kreindler.com/Recent-Developments/Kreindler-Kreindler-LLP-Investigates-Spanair-Flight-5022-Crash.shtml
 * http://www.webcitation.org/651boyjjY
 * Spanish: http://www.kreindler.com/Recent-Developments/Kreindler-Kreindler-LLP-Investiga-la-Caida-del-Vuelo-5022-de-Spanair.shtml
 * http://www.webcitation.org/651bqeubj

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Thrust reverser
Some sources point to the activation of the No. 1 thrust reverser as a possibility, not the No. 2 thrust reverser. MattChatt18 (talk) 10:39, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

What do you think of the nationality chart I made?
73.87.74.115 (talk) 15:50, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * It is totally unsourced, as most of your edits.--Jetstreamer $Talk$ 16:15, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

https://24.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Internacional/Interior.aspx?content_id=982578 73.87.74.115 (talk) 19:06, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * The url is dead.--Jetstreamer $Talk$ 21:30, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/aug/22/spain.theairlineindustry1 http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/591535/DNA-tests-to-identify-Madrid-air-crash-victims How about these? TrueLightningStriker (talk) 22:04, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
 * No nationality breakdown in this source.--Jetstreamer $Talk$ 22:10, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

This page really needs tidying up
Several odd wording choices such as "The stall warning horn activated as well as the synthetic voice" and "The first officer called in interrogative tone an engine failure and reduced power on both engines, specially on the right one" aswell as several typos. The sections are badly merged together, with "Accident" and "crash sequence" being redundant. Aircraft and accident descriptions should also be separated. Someone put a "needs clean up" flag here if possible 178.159.87.149 (talk) 19:25, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Deadmau5
Just for the record: "Deadmau5 discussed barely missing this flight on H3h3Productions podcast in an interview on YouTube " Apparently this has been removed from the article "many times before". Obviously the missed flight is entirely trivial with regards to the accident itself. But many aviation accident articles have these mentions? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:07, 3 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Also for the record: many famous people had COVID-19 but they did not die of the disease. Does this warrant a mention in the corresponding articles? I don't think so.--Jetstreamer $Talk$ 11:08, 4 April 2024 (UTC)


 * That's an interesting analogy. Did they all have tickets? Martinevans123 (talk) 11:16, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Yeah, they had a ticket to ride but they didn't care.--Jetstreamer $Talk$ 21:38, 5 April 2024 (UTC)