After a light aircraft accident Sabadell Aerodrome, just out side Barcelona, is closed to ALL traffic for the foreseeable future. Check NOTAMS for LELL.........
Accident caused by light aircraft hitting an unmarked crane shortly after takeoff.
News link:
http://www.barcelonareporter.com/ind...near_sabadell/
Story:
The mayoress of Sant Quirze del Vallès, Elisabet Oliveras, has denied that the 35m high crane against which a small aircraft crashed on Monday, resulting in the deaths of all four people onboard, was illegal. She based her comments on the fact that the crane was situated outside of the airport’s flight path and that authorities based at the airport in Sabadell were aware of the installation of the crane locally. ‘The only thing lacking was acknowledgement from [the Spanish airports authority] AENA and the Ministerio de Fomento’, assured Oliveras.
She reiterated that despite contacting the Ministerio de Fomento for permits, it is commonplace that the department ‘though asked, never responds’. Oliveras explained that ‘it is bad central government practice not to give a reply’. She added that the airport in Sabadell always received notifications of new cranes being installed locally.
The Aeroclub de Sabadell has said that it intends to complain to the local city council, the Ajuntament, if ‘irregularities exist in the permits’. Aeroclub spokesperson Lluís Oliva said ‘the aeroplane did not fall. It collided against an unmarked crane’. The crane was painted in blue, and not in red and white, as the regulations say it should have been.
The local authority of Sant Quirze del Vallès in return state that the small aircraft ‘was flying 50 metres below what it should have been’