Spanish documents delay plane crash report

Investigators examining the cause of a fatal crash in Cork Airport two years ago have blamed the delay in publishing their report largely on the challenge of translating highly technical documents from Spanish to English.

The aircraft involved in the accident, which left six people dead and six injured, was supplied and crewed by Spanish company Air Lada, and operated by a second Spanish company, Flightline BCN.

Ahead of the second anniversary of the crash this weekend, investigators said that because Spanish was an official language of international aviation, a significant amount of the operational, engineering, and oversight documentation existed only in that language.