Crash of an Airbus A400M in Spain: four dead, two wounded … – TF1

New air disaster. A military transport aircraft Airbus A400M Atlas, a new model, crashed Saturday in a field near Seville in southern Spain . According to the aircraft manufacturer, six people were on board and not “8 to 10″, as was said earlier this afternoon the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy . Four were killed while two others were seriously injured, according to the latest report quoted by Reuters. A fourth body has been found at the end of calcined day in the housing of the device.

The plane crashed around 13:00 in a field about a kilometer and a half north of the airport, fifteen minutes after takeoff. According to a witness quoted by the newspaper El Mundo , it hit an electric pole while attempting an emergency landing, which also caused a power outage in the area. The television showed pictures of a column of smoke rising from the accident site and firefighters spraying water with their lances the smoking wreckage of the plane.

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All the people on board were crew Airbus employees and a Spanish national. Although it was a military, the Defense Ministry said the flight was not provided by the Spanish army. Airbus, which assembles the A400 M at its plant in Seville, said it was in fact a first production test flight. The aircraft was still in the testing phase and should be delivered to the Turkish army next month. The manufacturer has opened a crisis cell and sent teams of experts on site.

A test flight, before a new appliance is delivered to the customer, is generally performed with a reduced crew. This is the first accident involving a Airbus A400M, model entered service in 2013. The first copy of the new European aircraft was delivered to France in 2013. Since then, Turkey and Germany have also taken Delivery and five other countries.

The A400M Atlas, the draft of 20 billion euros was increased by seven NATO countries (Belgium, France, Spain, Britain, Germany, Luxembourg and Turkey ) is a four-engined propeller multipurpose intended to replace the US C-130 Hercules and C-160 Transall French and German. The British Ministry of Defence announced that the Royal Air Force suspended the operations of its Airbus A400M as a result of this accident. The RAF has already received two of the 22 aircraft it has ordered.

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