Is Ciudad Real the most disastrous airport ever?
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Plan Director del Nuevo Aeropuerto deCiudad Real
00:00 Disaster Strikes
00:42 Going For a Song
01:20 Build Baby Build
02:54 A Great Idea
03:40 The Plan Begins
05:40 Going Big
07:04 Masterstroke
08:01 Trouble Begins
09:06 Grand Opening
09:53 A Rival emerges
10:42 It Gets Worse
11:37 Remember This?
12:14 A380?
13:02 Middle of Nowhere
14:40 Don Quixote
15:23 What happened Next
16:26 A Good Deal?
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