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...took the better part of the day, but by Wednesday evening, the dimensions of the worst Spanish air accident in the last 30 years were clear: of Spanair flight 5022's 172 passengers and crew, 153 were dead. The other 19 people onboard were all injured, many of them seriously enough that the death toll is predicted to rise...
...raised plenty of questions. Veteran pilot Antonio Luna had returned the plane to the terminal soon after its original 13:20 departure because of a technical malfunction. According to a member of the pilots' syndicate SEPLA, a checklight for the craft's temperature controls came on. A source in Spanair says the problem was fixed, and the plane was again cleared for takeoff a little over an hour later. At 14:45, it crashed...
...cost subsidiary of SAS Airlines, Spanair has fallen on hard times lately, and it recently announced cutbacks, including that of 100 pilots. Its current economic status will surely raise questions about whether cost-cutting measures contributed to the accident. The airline has stated that the 1993 craft passed its most recent inspection in May of this year...
...Lars Nygaard CEO, SPANAIR...
Change and creativity are Lars Nygaard's two favorite words. Last month the Dane became the CEO of Spanair, Spain's fast-expanding No. 2 airline. Top of his agenda: "Breaking down walls. I want to change the culture in our company," says Nygaard, 39, who was formerly Spanair's CFO. "Where I come from, things are less hierarchical." Nygaard comes from Spanair's parent, the Scandinavian carrier SAS, where he got his start. With his open-plan management and quick response to new ideas, he says, Spanair can thrive in a tough market: "We have a cost structure comparable...
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