2015 Seville Airbus A400M crash

On 9 May 2015, an Airbus A400M Atlas cargo plane on a test flight crashed at La Rinconada, Spain, less than 5 kilometres from Seville Airport at around 1:00 pm local time, killing 4 of the 6 crew.The aircraft, serial number MSN023, was on its first pre-delivery test flight and was scheduled to be the third A400M to be delivered to the Turkish Air Force. The delivery was scheduled for June 2015. The aircraft was being flown by an Airbus Defence and Space test crew and used the callsign CASA423. As of May 2015, Airbus had delivered just 12 of the 174 ordered and the programme had been plagued by persistent quality issues, both in the final assembly facility in Spain, and in Germany.

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