María Teresa Lumbreras Encinas has submitted her resignation as a board member of the newly created Independent Administrative Authority for the Technical Investigation of Railway, Maritime, and Civil Aviation Accidents and Incidents, just one day after being appointed by the Government.
This Wednesday's Official State Gazette (BOE) publishes that Lumbreras's cessation, a captain at Iberia for 33 years, is due to her resignation, effective July 8.
Twenty-four hours earlier, the Council of Ministers had given the green light to the appointments of all members of the commission of the new accident investigation authority, which will begin operating this month and will take over investigations already underway.
The candidacies proposed by the Executive for these positions were made public at the end of May and received unanimous support from the Congress of Deputies.
At the head of the body is maritime captain Gonzalo Julián Guillén Espejo-Saavedra as president, while the board members are Jorge Navacerrada Álvarez and José Antonio Pañero Huerga, as railway specialists; Verónica Elvira Olalla as an expert in the air sector (the area to which Lumbreras was assigned); and Nuria Obiols Vives and Juan Andrés Pérez Pérez as maritime specialists.
This new authority integrates and replaces the three commissions that had been operating in the Ministry - the CIAF (railway), the Ciaim (maritime), and the Ciaiac (aviation) - with the aim of strengthening their independence and their technical and functional autonomy.