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149 dead in plane crash at Madrid airport

Posted on | August 20, 2008 |

Such a sad news :-(

Smoke rises from the scene of the crash where a plane skidded off the runway and crashed at Madrid’s Barajas airport on August 20, 2008. (Paul Hanna/Reuters)

A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands crashed, burned and broke into pieces Wednesday while trying to take off from Madrid’s Barajas airport, killing 149 people on board, officials said.

There were only 26 survivors in the mid-afternoon crash, a Spanish emergency official said.

A police officer said the bodies were so hot that police could barely touch them and told El Pais newspaper the shattered wreckage bore no resemblance to a plane.

Dozens of ambulances rushed to the site as columns of smoke billowed from the wreckage. The prime minister broke off his vacation in southern Spain and rushed back to Madrid, heading straight for the airport. source

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One Response to “149 dead in plane crash at Madrid airport”

  1. no imagelira (Who am I?)
    August 20th, 2008 @ 4:32 pm

    puro n man crash ron. di ta sakay eroplano glads..jetplane lng..hehe

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