April 5 â Greenpeace announces that in November 2007 a radioactive leak was reported at the Ascó Nuclear Power Plant, but it was kept hidden from the press.
August 20 â Spanair flight 5022 crashed just after takeoff from runway 36L of Barajas Airport, killing 154 of the 166 people on board.
December 31 â A truck-bomb explodes near the EITB headquarters in Bilbao.