Here are some unanswered questions after reading the reports about the crash in Madrid:
Why was the Spanair out of service the day before the accident?
Why had unspecified problems kept the aircraft grounded on two previous occasions?
Why hasn’t the airport released the images taken by a security camera?
Why couldn’t Spanish television stations broadcast videos taken by rescue workers just a few minutes after the accident?
Why does everybody accept that one of the engines caught fire if nobody is able to report the identity of the sources?
Why has Spanair said that the accident happened at 2:45 p.m. if we now know that it was around 2:24 p.m., as one amateur videotape shows?
Why was one of the two black boxes recovered damaged?
Why did the pilots abort the takeoff after the critical “point of no return,” past which a full takeoff must be attempted?
Why haven’t the communications between the crew and ground controllers been released?
And two sides of the reporting:
At the top is a great infographic from El Mundo. Here is a very bad decorative one from The Sun of London:
