A Saudi army lieutenant colonel died today during a training flight at a Spanish air base, the Spanish Defence Ministry said.
The incident happened around 9:30 a.m. during a training flight aboard a Eurofighter Typhoon jet. A few minutes after takeoff, the plane hit the ground for unknown reasons, the Defense Ministry said.
A Spanish pilot who [...]
The United States has stopped annual payments it has made to Spain for a 1966 air accident in which two hydrogen bombs caused non-nuclear explosions, a Spanish government source said yesterday.
They said a bilateral agreement in force since the accident “expired” last year, the source at the ministry of science and innovation said.
In January 1966, [...]
On August 20, 2008, a Spanair Flight from Barajas Airport (Madrid) to Gran Canaria Airport (Gran Canaria, Spain) crashed shortly after take off, killing 154 people. The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas MD-82. Only 18 people walked away with their lives after the crash.
Now, exactly two years later, news of what might have brought the plane [...]
Two British children have been killed in a car crash during a family trip in Spain.
Nine-month-old Amelle Khan and her brother Amir, two, died when the vehicle they were in plunged down a grass bank at the side of a motorway.
The children, from Wandsworth, were believed to be on holiday with their parents when the [...]
Motorists caught in sweltering heat on a Swiss motorway after a Spanish melon lorry lost its load were tucked into free watery melons to help them cool down.
The accident happened when the lorry lost its load of sweet melons on the busy A3 near Basle in Switzerland, closing the road for two hours while firemen [...]
On This Day 3rd July 1970 Holiday jet goes missing over Barcelona, The Dan-Air Comet jet left Manchester Airport at 1700 BST (1600 GMT) to make the short flight to Barcelona with passengers on a Clarkson tour and seven crew
On This Day 3rd July 1970 Holiday jet goes missing over Barcelona
A charter flight from Manchester [...]
A British man and his adult son died Saturday when their small plane crashed during a practice flight just hours ahead of an air race on Spain´s Menorca island, organisers said.
The two men were the only passengers of the plane, one of about 20 taking part in Air Race Menorca 2010, a spokesman for the [...]
The bodies of the four Spanish soldiers who died in a helicopter accident in Haiti have been recovered and arrived to Spain after being bade farewell on Sunday by their comrades in an emotional ceremony held on board the vessel Castilla and attend by Defense Minister Carme Chacon.
The dead navy members are: Luis Fernando Torija, [...]