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Old Sep 4, 2008 | 5:41 am
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BAAZ
 
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Preliminary (unconfirmed) analysis of the flight data recorders suggest that the pilots might have failed to extend the flaps for takeoff, and that an electrical malfunction had disabled the system that would have warned them about this.

Link to Wall Street Journal (need to subscribe but free for a period)

Link to El Pais with full article (in Spanish)

If true, it's scarily similar to this accident from 1987.

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