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Spain blocks contract with the company from which hired the crashed Yak-42

Madrid, Spain - It's waited for the end of the investigations

After the terrible incident happened on Monday 26 May in Turkey, when a Yakovlev 42 transporting 62 Spanish troops returning from their mission in Afghanistan crashed, the Spanish Defense Minister has decided to re-consider the contracts stipulated with the operators for this type of activity. In particular the Minister, Federico Trillo, has suspended the contract that had been signed with the English...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 46164
Rome, Italy, 06/03/2003 11:28
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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