Plane Crash At Madrid Barajas
08-20-2008, 05:42 AM
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Plane Crash At Madrid Barajas
This is streaming from CNN and a Spanish TV station. I can't tell from the video what's going on, but hope everyone is ok. Apparently, a plane skidded off the runway.
CNN.com Live
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MADRID, Spain - An airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway during takeoff from the Madrid airport Wednesday and caught fire, Spain's national airport authority said.
The Interior Ministry confirmed at least 45 deaths, but an emergency services source told Reuters that nearly 150 were killed. Nineteen of the 178 people on board were seriously injured, the ministry's office for the greater Madrid region said.
Thick, white smoke billowed from the scene at Barajas airport.
Spanair flight JK5022 was bound for Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, a popular vacation spot off West Africa, the company said.
El Pais newspaper said the crash occurred on the plane's second attempt to take off after the first attempt was aborted due to technical problems. Witnesses reportedly said the left-hand motor began to burn just after takeoff.
An official with the Madrid emergency rescue service SAMUR said crews were removing injured people and bodies from the plane.
"It is a certain catastrophe," a SAMUR official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to give his name.
Twenty-one ambulances were sent to airport as well as three mobile units for psychological support, the Spanish Red Cross told msnbc.com.
Burn victims were being sent to Hospital de La Paz, according to the Red Cross.
At the airport, helicopters and fire trucks poured water on the plane, which ended up in a lower, wooded area at the end of the runway at Terminal 4.
Planes were allowed to land at the airport after the crash, but were not taking off, an airport spokesperson told msnbc.com
CNN.com Live
Update:
MADRID, Spain - An airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway during takeoff from the Madrid airport Wednesday and caught fire, Spain's national airport authority said.
The Interior Ministry confirmed at least 45 deaths, but an emergency services source told Reuters that nearly 150 were killed. Nineteen of the 178 people on board were seriously injured, the ministry's office for the greater Madrid region said.
Thick, white smoke billowed from the scene at Barajas airport.
Spanair flight JK5022 was bound for Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, a popular vacation spot off West Africa, the company said.
El Pais newspaper said the crash occurred on the plane's second attempt to take off after the first attempt was aborted due to technical problems. Witnesses reportedly said the left-hand motor began to burn just after takeoff.
An official with the Madrid emergency rescue service SAMUR said crews were removing injured people and bodies from the plane.
"It is a certain catastrophe," a SAMUR official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to give his name.
Twenty-one ambulances were sent to airport as well as three mobile units for psychological support, the Spanish Red Cross told msnbc.com.
Burn victims were being sent to Hospital de La Paz, according to the Red Cross.
At the airport, helicopters and fire trucks poured water on the plane, which ended up in a lower, wooded area at the end of the runway at Terminal 4.
Planes were allowed to land at the airport after the crash, but were not taking off, an airport spokesperson told msnbc.com
Last edited by vagabond; 08-20-2008 at 08:18 AM. Reason: added update as of 9:17 am PDT
08-20-2008, 08:33 AM
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"MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A Spanish plane with more than 170 people on board went off the runway Wednesday at Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing at least 45 people, officials said."
source: Reports: 45 killed in Madrid plane crash - CNN.com
http://www.reuters.com/article/world...27234920080820
source: Reports: 45 killed in Madrid plane crash - CNN.com
http://www.reuters.com/article/world...27234920080820
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08-20-2008, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Riverside
Don't post a death unless you actually know how many there are. It ain't 7.
You are correct. The number I posted was the initial number and since then the number of fatalities has been all over the chart from many surivors to almost none. Needless to say, it is tragic.
08-20-2008, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Riverside
Don't post a death unless you actually know how many there are. It ain't 7.
149 dead.
149 dead in plane crash at Madrid airport - Yahoo! News
08-21-2008, 08:44 AM
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