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Madrid Plane Disaster

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• Aug. 20: The tail of the Spanair jet that crashed on take off at Madrid airport is seen. A Spanair 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 153 people on board.
• Aug. 20: A part of the fuselage of the Spanair jet that crashed on take off at Madrid airport is lifted by a crane. 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 most deadly air disaster in more than 20 years.
• Aug. 21: People observe five minutes of silence for the victims of the Spanair jet crash in front of Madrid city government building. As Spain mourned its worst air disaster in nearly 25 years, investigators pressed Thursday to discover what caused a Spanish airliner to crash on takeoff from Madrid, killing 153 people in an intense fireball.
• Aug. 20: Ambulances and rescue workers gather near the site where a Spanair jet crashed on takeoff at Madrid airport. A Spanish airliner carrying 173 people bound for the Canary Islands crashed and caught fire while trying to take off from Madrid's Barajas airport.
• Aug. 20: An unidentified woman in a wheelchair reacts in Las Palmas, in the Spanish Canary Islands, following the crash of a Spanair airliner bound for the Canary Islands.
• Aug. 21: An unidentified family members arrives with others at a makeshift morgue in Madrid to identify victims of the Spanair airliner that crashed during take off at Madridīs airport Wednesday, killing 153 people aboard.
• Aug. 20: Unidentified family members of victims react in Madrid's Barajas airport after a Spanair airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway while taking off from the airport and caught fire.
• Aug. 20: Ambulances leave the site where a Spanair jet crashed on takeoff at Madrid airport.
• Aug. 20: A mother reacts after being told by officials that her 13 and 14-year-old children had taken another flight and were not on the Spanair airliner bound for the Canary Islands that crashed while taking off from Madrid's Barajas airport.
• Aug. 20: An unidentified woman reacts to the news of the crash at Madrid airport of a Spanair flight bound for the popular Canary Islands off the West African coast.
• Aug. 20: Ambulances and rescue workers gather near the site where a Spanair jet crashed on takeoff at Madrid airport.
• Aug. 20: A Red Cross worker speaks on her cell phone near the body of a victim of the Spanair jet crashed at Madrid airport.
• Aug. 20: A plane takes off near the site where a Spanair jet crashed on takeoff at Madrid airport. A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway and caught fire during takeoff from the Madrid airport, killing 153 people.
• Aug. 20: In this photo rendered from video via APTN, emergency vehicles head to the scene of a plane crash in Madrid. Spain's Interior Ministry said 153 people are dead after an airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway and caught fire during takeoff from the Madrid airport.
• June 13, 2007: File photo shows a Spanair passenger airplane taking off from Bilbao, Spain. A similar Spanair plane swerved off the runway during takeoff at the Barajas airport near Madrid Wednesday with 173 passengers aboard.
• Aug. 20: Smoke rises from the scene of the crash where a plane skidded off the runway and crashed at Madrid's Barajas airport.
• Aug. 20: A helicopter sprays water on a Spanair airliner in Madrid's Barajas airport.
• Aug. 20: Medical personnel tend an injured passenger in Madrid's Barajas airport after a Spanair airliner swerved off the runway.