Crash of a Douglas C-47B-25-DK in Palma de Mallorca

Date & Time: Jun 6, 1989 at 1030 LT
Operator:
Registration:
EC-EIS
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Mahón – Palma
MSN:
16066/32814
YOM:
1945
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
Upon landing, the right main gear collapsed. The aircraft veered off runway and came to rest. Both pilots escaped uninjured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Crash of a Canadair CL-215-1A10 in Santiago de Compostela: 4 killed

Date & Time: Sep 9, 1988 at 1500 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
UD.13-4
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
MSN:
1032
YOM:
1973
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
After takeoff, while climbing, the right engine failed. The aircraft lost height and crashed, killing all four crew members. They were on their way to perform a scooping mission before flying to the region of Orense to fight a forest fire.
Probable cause:
Failure of the right engine during initial climb for unknown reasons.

Crash of a Dassault Falcon 20DC in Las Palmas

Date & Time: Sep 30, 1987 at 0721 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
EC-ECB
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Madrid - Las Palmas
MSN:
210
YOM:
1970
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Captain / Total flying hours:
1515
Circumstances:
During the last segment, the aircraft was unstable and upon touchdown, it went out of control. It veered off runway to the left and came to rest. Both crew members escaped uninjured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Crash of a Canadair CL-215-1A10 near San Joan de Moró: 2 killed

Date & Time: Feb 13, 1987
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
UD.13-18
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
MSN:
1079
YOM:
1985
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The crew was engaged in a training flight and was completing a scooping mission on a small lake near San Joan de Moró when the airplane crashed while contacting water. Both pilots were killed.

Crash of a Douglas DC-6B near La Jonquera: 4 killed

Date & Time: Jul 19, 1986 at 1130 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
F-ZBBU
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Site:
MSN:
45219
YOM:
1957
Flight number:
Pélican 64
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
The aircraft was dispatched in a fire fighting mission over the Pyrenees Mountains. After the water was spread over the fire, the crew was trying to gain height when the aircraft struck a rock and crashed on the south slope of the Puig Llobregat (Mt de la Pouge) located northeast of Perthus Pass. The aircraft was destroyed and all four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Jean-Pierre Davenet,
Jacques Ogier,
Jack Le Bel,
Roland Denard.

Crash of a Cessna 340A in Valencia: 2 killed

Date & Time: Jun 11, 1985 at 1156 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
EC-DFC
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
MSN:
340A-0270
YOM:
1976
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
Shortly after takeoff, the aircraft suffered an engine failure. Control was lost and the aircraft crashed, bursting into flames. Both pilots were killed.
Probable cause:
Engine failure during initial climb for unknown reasons.

Crash of a Boeing 727-256 near Bilbao: 148 killed

Date & Time: Feb 19, 1985 at 0927 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
EC-DDU
Survivors:
No
Site:
Schedule:
Madrid - Bilbao
MSN:
21777
YOM:
1979
Flight number:
IB610
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
141
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
148
Captain / Total flying hours:
13678
Captain / Total hours on type:
4671.00
Copilot / Total flying hours:
5548
Copilot / Total hours on type:
2045
Aircraft flight hours:
13408
Aircraft flight cycles:
12347
Circumstances:
Iberia Flight 610 departed Madrid at 08:47 for a scheduled flight to Bilbao, where it was scheduled to land at 09:35. The Boeing 727, named "Alhambra de Granada", climbed to the cruising altitude of FL260. At 09:09 the crew were instructed to descend to FL100. Seven minutes later the copilot contacted Bilbao Tower. The controller then cleared the flight for an ILS approach: "Iberia 610, you can continue descent, for an ILS approach to Bilbao, runway 30, wind is 100 degrees 3 knots, QNH 1025 and transition level 70." This was confirmed by the crew. The controller subsequently offered them a direct clearance to the approach fix, which is located at 13 DME from the airport. The captain declined and decided to fly the standard approach procedure. At 09:22 flight 610 reported over the Bilbao VOR at 7000 feet, starting the standard approach procedure. The airplane further descended to 5000 feet, which it reached three minutes later. The crew switched the Altitude Alert System to 4300 ft (the minimum sector altitude is 4354 feet) and continued the descent. The altitude alert horn sounds 900 feet prior to reaching the preset altitude (approach mode) and 300 feet below that altitude (deviation mode). Since the flight had 700 feet to go, the horn would only sound at around 4000 feet. Since the crew descended below the minimum sector altitude, the altitude alert horn sounded at 4040 feet. The crew interpreted this being the approach mode alert, and continued their descent. Fifty-seven seconds after passing through the minimum sector altitude, the airplane struck the base of a structure of antennas located close to the top of Mount Oiz (3356 feet high). The left wing broke off and the remaining fuselage crashed onto the hillside, cutting a swath through the trees. The aircraft disintegrated on impact and all 148 occupants were killed.
Probable cause:
Their confidence on the automatic capture performed by the Altitude Alert System, the misinterpretation of its warnings, as well as a probable misreading of the altimeter made the crew to fly below the safety altitude, colliding into the television antennas' base, thus losing the left wing, falling to the ground with no possible control of the aircraft.
Final Report:

Crash of a De Havilland C-7A Caribou in Horcajo de los Montes

Date & Time: Oct 11, 1984
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
T.9-15
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
MSN:
19
YOM:
1960
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
6
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
An engine caught fire in-flight, forcing the crew to reduce his altitude and to attempt an emergency landing. The aircraft belly landed in a prairie and came to rest. All nine occupants were rescued, among them two were slightly injured. The aircraft was written off.
Probable cause:
Engine fire in flight for unknown reasons.

Crash of a Lockheed C-130E Hercules near Borja: 18 killed

Date & Time: Feb 28, 1984 at 1930 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
68-10944
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Site:
Schedule:
Ramstein - Zaragoza
MSN:
4324
YOM:
1969
Location:
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
9
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
9
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
18
Circumstances:
Inbound from Ramstein AFB, Germany, the four engine airplane was descending to Zaragoza Airport, carrying nine passengers and nine crew members, among them a high ranking officer from the Spanish Air Force. Arriving in the Spanish Airspace, the crew was supposed to take part to a joined exercise with the Ejército del Aire (Spanish Air Force). While cruising at an altitude of 2,200 feet in marginal weather conditions with flaps down at 50° and at a speed of 250 km/h, the aircraft struck the slope of a mountain located in the Sierra de Moncayo, west of Borja. The aircraft disintegrated on impact and all 18 occupants were killed. At the time of the accident, the visibility was estimated to 6 km with a ceiling at 1,200 feet.
Probable cause:
It is believed that the accident was the consequence of a controlled flight into terrain.

Crash of a Douglas DC-9-32 in Madrid: 42 killed

Date & Time: Dec 7, 1983 at 0939 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
EC-CGS
Flight Phase:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Madrid - Santander
MSN:
47645
YOM:
1975
Flight number:
AO134
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
37
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
42
Captain / Total flying hours:
13442
Captain / Total hours on type:
4096.00
Copilot / Total flying hours:
10322
Copilot / Total hours on type:
3655
Aircraft flight hours:
20078
Aircraft flight cycles:
17909
Circumstances:
Boeing 727-256 EC-CFJ of Iberia, operating scheduled flight IB350 to Rome, and DC-9-32 EC-CGS of Aviaco, operating schedule AO134 to Santander, crashed on runway 01/19 at Madrid-Barajas Airport. The Boeing 727 had been cleared for takeoff on runway 01 and was at V1 speed. The DC-9 had been cleared to proceed to the holding point at runway 01 through the outer taxiway. The accident occurred approximately at 09h39:29 on December 7, 1983. As a result of the impact and instant fire, the DC-9 aircraft was totally destroyed, dying the whole of its occupants, 5 crew members and 37 passengers. The Boeing 727 aircraft lost almost all of its left wing and main gear of the same side, sliding on the runway about 460 meters, until its final stop, remaining facing the opposite direction of takeoff, on the left edge of runway 01. As a result of the impact and of the spilling of fuel from the left wing, there was an almost instant fire at the time o the crash, which subsequently destroyed the aircraft. 34 passengers and 8 crew members out of the 84 passengers and 9 crew members, survived. 50 passengers and one assistance crew member died as a result of the impact and fire. The conditions of visibility at the airport were of daylight and intense fog.
Probable cause:
The cause of the accident was the unknown incursion of the DC-9 on the runway 01/19 when the Boeing 727 was on takeoff roll. The DC-9 was on the active runway because visibility conditions due to fog, by the zone where the aircraft was taxiing, impeded to the crew obtain sufficient visual references, to determine that, that was not the correct run that they should realize to reach the threshold of runway 01.
Final Report: