Was Malware Responsible for Crash of Spanair Flight 5022?

The Registry reports that malware may have been a contributory cause of the crash of Spanair flight JK 5022 crashed in August 2008. The flight crashed moments after taking off from Madrid's Barajas Airport on a scheduled flight to Las Palmas with 172 on board.

According to the Registry, the airline's central computer which registered technical problems on planes was infected by Trojans at the time of the fatal crash and this may have resulted in a failure to raise an alarm over multiple problems with the plane.