149 dead in plane crash at Madrid airport
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MADRID, Spain (AP) — A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands at the height of the vacation season crashed, burned and broke into pieces Wednesday while trying to take off from Madrid, killing 149 people on board, officials said.
There were only 26 survivors in the mid-afternoon crash, said Spanish Development Minister Magdalena Alvarez, whose department is in charge of civil aviation. It was Spain's deadliest air disaster in more than 20 years.
Graphic locates the Madrid Barajas International Airport in Madrid, Spain, site of aircraft accident;
A police officer said the bodies were so hot that police could barely touch them ...
