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Airbus says A400M black boxes show 3 of 4 engines failed before deadly May crash in Spain

PARIS – Airbus says three of the four engines on an A400M military plane failed before it crashed near Seville, Spain last month, killing four people.

In a statement Wednesday, Airbus Defence and Space says the faulty engines were confirmed by Spanish accident investigators after completing their preliminary analysis of the aircraft’s digital flight data and cockpit voice recorders.

The crash May 9 killed two pilots and two flight test engineers. The crash remains udner investigation.

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