Three DGT helicopters stopped and two from Madrid service 112 which could not fly. At least they can offer a complete service. This was the result of the bankruptcy of Aliens, the company that was awarded the contract to provide such services. There are no alternative plans at this time.
unemployed. The community of Madrid has two Suma 112 helicopters (health emergency services) stopped or half throttled. And DGT’s three other Pegasus vehicles are fully grounded at bases in Malaga, Seville and Santiago de Compostela, according to the country.
The newspaper published this information yesterday, Thursday, November 5, stating that one of the two helicopters of the Madrid Health Emergency Service has been detained since last Sunday and that the complementary aircraft must undergo an inspection and be detained for at least another 24 hours.
Behind all this is the bankruptcy of Aliens, the company to which these services were provided.
Bankruptcy of aliens. The reason for this stop is that the Eliance company, which is responsible for offering its services to the Community of Madrid and the DGT, is going through critical times. At the beginning of October, the company entered the pre-bankruptcy phase after closing the 2025 financial year with a loss of 24 million euros.
This lack of economic resources has direct consequences. The CCOO has already indicated that Pegasus helicopters on patrols based in Malaga, Seville and Santiago de Compostela did not fly in October. In Xataka We contacted the DGT to find out which helicopters are currently operational but did not receive a response when we wrote these lines.
Now, a lack of financial means has grounded the Suma 112 helicopter at the Lozola base as its pilots must renew their licenses every six months with hours of simulator time, but the aliens have not given them access to it, preventing the device from taking flight. Thus, the Madrid service relies on a single device that, since last Sunday, November 1, has been attending all emergencies that demand it in the Madrid community.
What happened? They explain Forbes The company’s current situation is the result of trying to grow too fast. In 2018, Habock Aviation Group was renamed Aliens with the aim of consolidating several companies under the same company that were in charge of emergency services with aircraft until then.
They explained to the media that aliens bought companies to gain size and financed expansion based on debt and investment funds. However, their main client was always the administration, which gave them a small profit margin on a service with huge operating costs: pilots, mechanics, technicians, aircraft and their maintenance. All these must be available at all times, whether the workload is high or low.
Non-availability of helicopters is affecting the company. Galician environment Public Square It noted that the Xunta de Galicia had opened dozens of files for helicopters not being available for emergency services. For this same reason the company has been fined in Madrid and contracts canceled in Extremadura and Catalonia.
They were warned. In terms of service to Madrid, Aliens won the contract to offer medical helicopters in 2023. In return, the community of Madrid will pay more than four million euros per year for five years of service The terms of the contract state that a helicopter cannot remain idle for more than twelve hours.
In the case of DGT, a contract remained with Aliens that offered 51 million euros in exchange for flying Pegasus helicopters distributed to all Spanish bases for 38 months. Since October, three have been deactivated and, along with the parade of armed forces, those operating from Madrid, Zaragoza and Valladolid have also been deactivated. That is, no Pegasus crossed the Spanish skies that day, despite it being a festive and important day at Puente de la Hispanidad.
What’s worse is that in both cases the aliens have already come up with several violations. The aforementioned incidents in Galicia, Extremadura and Catalonia have already forced the company to respond financially to the lack of available helicopters. The CCOO has repeatedly informed the Ministry of Home Affairs (contractor in case of DGT) about this. In the world They pointed out that UGT also did the same.
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