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MADRID, Spain -- A Spanish plane with more
than 170 people on board went off the runway
Wednesday at Madrid's Barajas Airport,
killing at least 90 people, officials said.
Medical personnel tend an injured passenger
in Madrid's Barajas airport.
The crash during take off reportedly followed
an explosion on board the budget airline jet,
sending up a plume of smoke visible from
several kilometers away.
The official death toll is 90, according to
Interior Ministry officials. But local
officials are telling that 26 people taken to
hospital are the only survivors.
Some of those survivors have serious injuries
and others non-life threatening injuries.
Many of the injured were treated for burns.
The incident happened as Spanair Flight 5022
was taking off from the main runway, the
official said. It was headed to Las Palmas in
the Canary Islands, a more than two-hour
flight. Watch smoke rising from airport »
The Red Cross said it has set up a field
hospital at the airport to treat the injured
and is offering psychological counseling to
the victims' families.
Clouds of gray and black smoke billowed from
the site, and even local media cameras could
not get a close view of the accident scene. A
helicopter passed overhead, dumping what
appeared to be water on reported grassfires
sparked by the blaze.
Ambulances were seen speeding in and out of
the airport and dozens of emergency vehicles
gathered at one entrance point. Watch as the
wounded arrive at a hospital »
Spanish media reported at least 11 fire
engines were dispatched to control the blaze.
Spanish journalist Carlota Fomina told she
had spoken to one of the passengers who had
been on board the plane at the time of the
crash who described an explosion and fire at
the back of the plane.
It was not immediately clear when during take
off the accident happened or if the plane had
managed to get off the ground.
The accident happened as Spanair Flight 5022
-- also carrying passengers from Lufthansa
Flight 2554 -- was taking off at about 2:45
p.m. (8:45 a.m. ET), an airport official
said.
Spanair, owned by Scandinavian airline SAS,
is one of Spain's three major private
carriers.
An SAS official said there were 166
passengers plus six crew on the plane, which
was a code-share flight with Lufthansa
Airline, indicating the jet may have been
carrying German vacationers. Watch as
relatives of survivors start arriving at the
airport »
Barajas Airport closed after the crash but
reopened more than two hours later, allowing
a limited number of take-offs and landings,
the airport official said.
It was the first fatal accident at the
airport since December 1983, when 93 people
were killed as two Spanish airliners collided
while taxiing for takeoff.
The airport, eight miles (13 km) northeast of
central Madrid, is Spain's busiest, handling
more than 40 million passengers a year.
The United States' National Transportation
Safety Board is sending an investigation team
to Madrid to aid in the crash investigation
because the aircraft is an American-made
McDonnell Douglas MD-82, NTSB spokesman Keith
Holloway said.
He said the group will depart "as soon as we
can gather the team together."
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2. video: Reuters
3. pictures Reuters
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| madrid antifascista |
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