Airbus confirms 4 dead in A400M crash in Spain

Posted on 13 May 2015 by Tim Brown

Airbus Defence and Space has confirmed that one of its A400M Atlas aircraft was involved in an accident near the Sevilla (Spain) Airport on May 09 during a test flight.

The aircraft, which had been ordered by the Turkish Air Force, was making its first production flight and had departed from Sevilla Airport at 12:45 pm local time but was reported to have crashed only minutes later. Airbus said it was ‘devastated’ to confirm that out of the total crew of six on board the plane, four had perished in…

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