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18th Anniversary of the Tragedy of the Spanair JK5022 Flight Between Madrid and Gran Canaria

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154 people died

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On a new anniversary of the tragedy of Spanair, those affected demand in Gran Canaria to purge political and technical responsibilities

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In the same place, with pain, without oblivion.The Association of Affected Persons of Flight JK5022 of Spanair (AVJK5022) has met again with the relatives and friends of those who lost their lives in the tragic accident of the flight to Gran Canaria, which on 20 August 2008 took off at 14.24 hours but never reached its destination.With 154 dead and 18 injured, the occupants of the plane of Spanair that began the flight at Terminal 4 of Barajas f…

·Madrid, Spain
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The tribute will begin at 10 a.m., with a floral offering at the monument 'Lights in the void', located on the beach of Las Canteras

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It was the afternoon of August 20, 2008, when Spanair's JK5022 flight was scheduled to cover the route from Madrid to the Palmas de Gran Canaria. On board the plane were 172 passengers and crew, when, shortly after the start of the take-off, the plane lost height and crashed in the vicinity of Madrid-Barajas airport. In just a few seconds, what was supposed to be a routine flight became one of the biggest air tragedies in Spain's recent history.…

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Silence, memory and memory on the 18th anniversary of the accident of the flight JK5022 of Spanair. Gran Canaria recalled this Thursday the 18 years of the tragedy of the flight JK5022, which killed 154 people and left 18 survivors, many of them with serious sequels. Spanair’s plane crashed at the airport of Barajas shortly after starting the takeoff towards the island. Almost two decades later, different points of the Archipelago rehosted the e…

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