The German, Malaysian, and Turkish air forces suspended operations of their A400M fleets following the accident. The Royal Air Force "temporarily paused" flying its two Atlas cargo planes as a result of this accident. San Pablo Airport was closed following the accident. Three local men helped the two survivors, a mechanic and an engineer, escape from the wreckage. Four of them were killed and the remaining two seriously injured. The six aircraft crew were Spanish employees of Airbus Defence and Space. Tracking data from the Flightradar24 website indicated the plane had veered to the left before coming down and that it had reached a maximum altitude of 1,725 feet (526 m) before descending at a constant speed of about 160 knots (300 km/h 180 mph). The pilots had reported that the plane had a technical fault and asked for permission to land, but hit an electricity pylon while attempting an emergency landing. 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. The aircraft was being flown by an Airbus Defence and Space test crew and used the callsign CASA423. The delivery was scheduled for June 2015. 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. On, an Airbus A400M Atlas cargo plane on a test flight crashed at La Rinconada, Spain, less than 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Seville Airport at around 1:00 pm local time, killing 4 of the 6 crew. The second prototype of the Airbus A400M Atlas
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