Spanair Flight 5022

Introduction
Spanair Flight 5022 was a passenger flight from Barcelona to the Gran Canaria island with a stop in Madrid. The flight crashed after the Captain had forgotten to do parts of the take-off checklist.

Pilots
Captain Antonio Garcia Luna and First Officer Francisco Javier Mulet were at the controls during the crash, and it was their fault for the accident.

The Crash
It's a hot summers day in Madrid, and the pilots of Flight 5022 want to get off the ground. Once they were given clearance to take-off, they quickly rushed through the take-off checklist so they could get moving. And by doing so, they didn't adjust the slats or flaps. When moving down the runway, the TOWS (Take-off Warning System) should have sounded, but for some reason it did not. The investigation has found no evidence pointing to why it failed. The pilots took off, but without flaps or slats the plane hovered over the runway, and then fell into a stall. The aircraft hit the ground right of the runway and lost it's tail, before hitting a hillside and catching on fire. A total of 154 people died during the accident, while 18 people made it out alive.

May those 154 people rest in peace.