Spantax S.A. was a Spanish leisure airline headquartered in Madrid[1] that operated from 6 October 1959 to 29 March 1988. Spantax was one of the first Spanish airlines to operate tourist charter flights between European and North American cities and popular Spanish holiday destinations and was considered a major force in developing 20th-century mass tourism in Spain. Its popularity and image faded from the 1970s onward when a series of crashes and incidents revealed safety deficits, which, combined with rising fuel costs and increasing competition, resulted in the company facing severe financial difficulties that led to its demise in 1988.
^"World Airline Directory." Flight International. 20 March 1975. 503.
Spantax S.A. was a Spanish leisure airline headquartered in Madrid that operated from 6 October 1959 to 29 March 1988. Spantax was one of the first Spanish...
the J79, the CJ805 and CJ805-23 were smoky, although secondary operator Spantax eventually had their engines refitted with low-smoke combustion chambers...
Spantax Flight 995 was a charter flight from Madrid-Barajas Airport to New York via Málaga Airport on September 13, 1982. When the DC-10 aircraft was...
service was operated by Germania.[citation needed] In 1967 the pilot of a Spantax Convair 990 Coronado mistook the 1360 m long runway of Finkenwerder for...
Airport. All 90 passengers and crew on board are killed. January 5 – A Spantax Convair 990 Coronado crashed shortly after takeoff from Stockholm's Arlanda...
Metropolitan Airport. TWA Flight 843, another high-speed aborted take-off Spantax Flight 995, another aircraft that aborted take-off after passing V1 Smith...
France, British Airways, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, Sabena, Swissair and Spantax all used Anchorage as a stopover point between Europe and the Far East...
other German cities and many other European countries. On April 4, 1978, a Spantax Convair 990 landing at Cologne Bonn Airport forgot to pull out the landing...
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 operated by Iberia and Spantax Flight 400, a Convair 990 Coronado operated by Spantax collide due to ATC error. All 61 passengers...
Transport) and Britannia Airways, as well as overseas operators such as Aviaco, Spantax and Aviogenex amongst others. On 19 October 1971, the Teesside Airport...
board were killed, but the aircraft was written off. 5 January 1970: A Spantax Convair 990 registered as EC-BNM on a ferry flight from Stockholm Arlanda...
Flight 400 may refer to: TWA Flight 400, crashed on 1 April 1956 Spantax Flight 400, crashed on 5 March 1973 This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
attributed to bird ingestion, aircraft destroyed by fire but no fatalities Spantax Flight 995 – an RTO above V1, 50 fatalities TWA Flight 843 – RTO after...
the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa). 1982 – Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing...
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