Klasjet incident Madrid

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On Apr 12th 2019 Spain's CIAIAC reported that during preflight preparations a fault with one of the aircraft's navigation systems had been spotted. An engineer and the crew reviewed the minimum equipment list (MEL) verifying that the aircraft was permitted to be dispatched with this equipment inoperative and released the aircraft under the related MEL requirements. During climb out a number of faults occurred also in the first officer's navigation systems prompting the crew to return to Madrid without the automatic navigation equipment available. Following two landing attempts which ended in go arounds due to adverse weather conditions the crew declared emergency and diverted the aircraft to Getafe Airforce Base for a safe landing.