SPAIN : update - Spaniair Airlines Terbabas, 153 Maut -

amazed · Post time 21-12-2007 07:27 AM

December 21, 2007

Spain bans parents from smacking children

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish parents will be banned from smacking their children, congress voted on Thursday.

Until now parents have been allowed to "reasonably and moderately correct" their children, but deputies deleted that clause and rewrote Spain's civil code to make clear a child's physical and psychological integrity should be respected.

Spain's Socialist government, which pushed through the change, has often been accused by the conservative Popular Party opposition of undermining traditional values and the family with policies such as legalising gay marriage.

Popular Party deputies, who voted against the change, said the measure would leave parents powerless, but Socialists said the law shut the door to any chance of misunderstanding.

Around 16 European countries have already banned smacking at school and in the home. In October the British government rejected the banning of corporal punishment at home as long as parents did not leave bruises, grazes or swelling.

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dexa · Post time 21-8-2008 01:52 AM

Pesawat Spanair Airlines terbabas, 45 maut
20/08/2008

MADRID 20 Ogos

tom5190 · Post time 21-8-2008 06:50 AM

HARAP2 JGN JADI KAT MAS DAN AIR ASIA

harakirie · Post time 21-8-2008 02:40 PM

Originally posted by tom5190 at 21-8-2008 06:50 AM

HARAP2 JGN JADI KAT MAS DAN AIR ASIA

beb, kurang setuju tuh. patutnyer - "harap2 jangan jadi langsung kat sesaper pun"

dexa · Post time 21-8-2008 09:18 PM

153 killed in Madrid airline crash

A helicopter fliews over a site where a Spanish tourist
jet skidded off a Madrid airport runway. A Spanish tourist
jet carrying 172 people careened off a Madrid airport runway
and broke up in flames on Wednesday, killing 153 people
in the country's worst air crash in more than 20 years, the
government said.

MADRID (AFP) - A Spanish tourist jet carrying 172 people careened off a Madrid airport runway and broke up in flames on Wednesday, killing 153 people in the country's worst air crash in more than 20 years, the government said.

One engine of the Spanair MD-82 caught fire during the attempted take-off from Madrid-Barajas airport on a flight to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands at 2:45pm (1245 GMT), Spanish media said, quoting witnesses.

Smoke billowed from the wreckage of Flight JK 5022. Helicopters dropped water to douse the flames of the jet and grassfires caused by the crash.

The airport cancelled departures after the crash and restricted the number of flights arriving. About 30 incoming flights were delayed by up to seven hours.

Transport Minister Magdalena Alvarez said 153 people were killed among the 172 people on board, 10 of them crew members. She told a news conference that 19 people were injured, 17 of whom had been identified.

The head of the emergency and rescue services in Madrid, Ervigio Corral, earlier said the bodies were scattered over a wide area, and some of the survivors were able to "walk away" from the accident. At least 50 emergency service vehicles were at the scene.

Spanair, Spain's second largest airline after Iberia, said the names of the passengers and crew would only be released after families have been notified. "Information on the number of people involved is not yet available, but Spanair is doing everything possible to help the Spanish authorities at this difficult time," the company added.

The flight was a codeshare with Lufthansa and the German carrier said four passengers from a Lufthansa flight were registered on the ill-fated Spanair jet and had arrived in Madrid.

The Swedish foreign ministry said two Swedes were among those on board, at least one of whom survived.

At the airport, friends and family members of those on board were escorted into a special room, where priests were present. Dozens more distraught friends and family waited at Las Palmas airport.

Spanair's managing director Marcus Hedblom described it as "the worst thing that could happen" and expressed his condolences to the families of those killed. SAS, the Scandinavian airline which owns Spanair, said a special team had been set up in Madrid. "SAS is doing everything possible to help passengers and next of kin and to assist Spanish authorities."

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero interrupted his holiday to go to the scene, his office said. The Boeing Co., which owns McDonnell Douglas, offered assistance to Spanish authorities investigating the disaster.

It was the deadliest air accident in Spain since February 1985, when 148 people were killed in a crash in the northern city of Bilbao. The most deadly accident in Europe's aviation history remains the collision between two Boeing 747s at Tenerife airport in Spain's Canary Islands on March 27, 1977 with 583 victims.

Spanair has had a good safety record until now. However, five passengers on a Spanair flight from Spain's Basque region to Barcelona were injured in an emergency evacuation on January 9, 2006.

The airline was founded in 1986 and says it has carried more than 104 million passengers from about 100 European destinations to Spain since then. It has a fleet of 65 jets.

The carrier, a member of the Star Alliance network, recently proposed shedding almost a quarter of its 4,000 staff because of the fuel price rise crisis and reduced demand. It posted net losses of 41 million euros (62 million dollars) in the first quarter.

SAS shares plunged 6.41 percent on the Stockholm stock exchange after the crash.

SAS had put Spanair on the block earlier this year but announced in June that it was abandoning the sale plans due to the slowdown in the aviation sector.

harakirie · Post time 22-8-2008 01:32 AM

Boeing MD-82 crashes during takeoff in Madrid

A Boeing MD-82 that was carrying passengers bound for the Canary Islands, crashed while attempting to take off from Madrid on Wednesday. Of those on board, 149 people were killed, officials said.

According to Spanish Development Minister Magdalena Alvarez, whose department is in charge of civil aviation, 26 people have survived. It was Spain's deadliest air disaster in more than 20 years.

A police officer said the bodies were so hot that police could barely touch them and told El Pais newspaper the shattered wreckage bore no resemblance to a plane.

Dozens of ambulances rushed to the site as columns of smoke billowed from the wreckage. The prime minister broke off his vacation in southern Spain and rushed back to Madrid, heading straight for the airport.

"I have never seen anything like this in my life," ambulance driver Luis Ferreras, who viewed the crash site, was quoted as saying by El Pais.

Spanair Flight JK5022 — bound for Las Palmas during the height of Europe's summer vacation season — was just barely airborne when it veered right, crashed and broke into pieces, reports said.

Spanair spokesman Sergio Allard told a news conference the plane was carrying 175 people and the cause of the crash was not immediately known.

El Pais said the plane left an hour late because of technical problems. It eventually managed to get slightly off the ground but crashed near the end of the runway, El Pais said, quoting an employee of the national airport authority AENA.

Helicopters and fire trucks dumped water on the plane, which ended up in a wooded area at the end of the runway at Terminal 4.

A makeshift morgue was set up at the city's main convention center, officials said.

Mats Jansson, the chief executive of Spanair's owner, Scandinavian Airlines, said he had no information about the toll or the accident itself.

In Germany, Lufthansa said it issued tickets to seven people who checked in for the flight, and that four of those were from Germany. It was unclear whether they were German citizens.

Sweden's Foreign Ministry confirmed that two Swedes were onboard the aircraft. One of them has been located at a hospital while the other is unaccounted for, ministry spokeswoman Gufran al-Nadaf said.

The plane was an MD-82 on a codeshare flight with Lufthansa's LH255, Spanair said. Departures from Madrid's airport were suspended for several hours.

McDonnell Douglas was bought out by Boeing in 1997. Boeing spokesman Jim Proulx said the company would send at least one person to assist in the investigation of the crash as soon as it receives an invitation from Spanish authorities.

"We stand ready to provide technical assistance," he said, reading from a prepared statement.

Allard said the plane last passed an inspection in January of this year and no problems with it had been reported since then. The plane is 15 years old and has been owned by Spanair for the past nine, he said.

Last July, 199 people were killed in Brazil when an Airbus A320 belonging to TAM airlines skidded off the runway at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport before crashing into a nearby gas station and an air cargo building.

Five people died and 65 were injured on May 30 when the A320 belonging to Grupo Taca skidded off the end of the runway at Toncontin International Airport near the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.

The deadliest disaster in aviation history occurred in Spain in 1977 as a result of a runway collision between two fully loaded Boeing 747s in the Canary Islands. A total of 583 people died.

In November 1983, a Boeing 747 operated by the Colombian airline Avianca crashed near Madrid as it prepared to land, killing 181 people.

In February 1985, an Iberia Boeing 727 crashed near Bilbao in the Basque region, killing 148 people.

dexa · Post time 23-8-2008 09:14 AM

Enjin Spanair tidak terbakar

MADRID – Satu rakaman video insiden sebuah pesawat penumpang yang terhempas di Madrid bercanggah dengan kenyataan saksi-saksi bahawa enjin pesawat tersebut terbakar ketika ia berlepas, lapor media Sepanyol semalam.

Rakaman pihak berkuasa penerbangan awam, AENA, merekodkan pesawat MD-82 milik Spanair berlepas sebelum ia terhempas beberapa saat kemudian di luar landasan Lapangan Terbang Madrid-Barajas, lapor akhbar El Pais.

– AFP

amazed · Post time 3-9-2008 06:11 PM

13 pendatang Afrika maut dalam kapal

MADRID: Sebuah kapal yang membawa 46 pendatang Afrika maut bersama 13 yang lain ketika dalam pelayaran ke Kepulauan Canary, hari ini.

Kapal nelayan yang diperbuat daripada kayu itu ditahan bot peronda polis yang kemudian diarah ke Pelabuhan Arguineguin, di Pulau Gran Canaria.

"Kami percaya mereka menghadapi keadaan yang amat sukar ketika dalam pelayaran. Mereka mungkin berada di lautan antara lapan hingga 12 hari. Mereka dipercayai hilang arah pelayaran beberapa kali dan enjin kapal juga rosak," kata jurucakap Palang Merah di Las Palmas. - AFP

wooo pshawww!!!! tak bley aku nak bayangkan ni

aku tunggu lebih banyak info lagi pasai ni...