Spanair plane crash at Barajas infographic

Spanair plane crash at Barajas infographic

Source: http://www.expansion.com/actualidad/especiales/accidente-spanair-barajas/galeria.htm

The next infographic is about a plane crash in Barajas airport in Madrid, Spain. It is easy to be understood because of many reasons like the text that is very clarifying, draws, data in a table and a flat indicating different parts of the terminal. Maybe the color is not very appropiated because all is shown in black and white and it is very probable that if it was used a more bright and colorful explanation it would be clearer. The infographic is very figurative, distance between representation and represented is very close. Draws are very near to reality.

 It is also quite functional, every aspect, part or element that is a part of it contains information, data, has an illustrative of what occured purpose. It is quite lightness there is not any risk of overwhelm the public. Combination between lines, shapes and text is pretty good. 

The infographic is a little bit more multidimensional because although all the surface is dedicated to talk about the same accident it offers many important different data such as the number of victims, the steps of the aircraft, passengers, flight number, aircraft seats, etc. It is also pretty familiar, resources used in this example are very common to the public. It has not be used originality, it is a recurring way to explain this type of accidents. The infographic is novel, no information is repeated is showed one time but adding some more data in each aspect treated.

In conclusion I think it could be aimed to all types of people, to be published in any media and a large audience will be capable of understanding it, it is already quite used to this kind of images and representations of facts.

Pilots in the Battle

It has come to light conversation between the captain of the aircraft, the copilot and a third person in the cockpit, still unidentified, of the Spanair plane crashed on August 20^th with 154 killing people. Minutes before the accident and while the passenger complains about the “bungling” of the mechanics, the pilot replies, “fly the plane, I shit on the sea, fly it.” 

Airline pilots

The talks have been made public by the radio station CADENA SER. In them, the commander of the ship, the first officer and a third person express were anger at the way they had fixed the fault. Before the accident, the copilot asked to the third person if they have changed the relay, fault that had caused the plane did not takeoff minutes before. When he knew that it has not been replaced, but they have taken away, he did not conceal his surprise. “How will they remove the relay!” Replied angrily.  “This is a patch what you have done here,” he added.

Despite doubts, takeoff was not aborted and pilots headed the ship toward the runway. When the co-pilot took the controls, the alarm began to sound in the cockpit because the devices for takeoff were not deployed. “How the hell the voice is removed?” He said. Then came the end: “Fly the plane, I shit on the sea, fly it.” His last word is “shit”, while listening to the copilot screaming desperately.