Co-owner of Spanish airline Air Comet Gerardo Diaz Ferran gestures during a news conference at the airlines headquarters in Madrid, December 23, 2009. Spain's public works ministry said on Tuesday that it had suspended Air Comet's operating licence leaving hundreds of passengers bound for South America, including the national soccer squads from Ecuador and Peru, stranded at Madrid's Barajas airport after a UK court impounded nine of its aircraft at the request of German bank HSH Nordbank, which the airline owes 17 million euros (24.32 million U.S. dollars).(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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