Nearly 150 Dead in Madrid Plane Crash*

Nearly 150 people on a Spanair flight bound for the Canary Islands were killed when the MD-82 plane overshot the runway and crashed during takeoff at Madrid’s Barajas International Airport. Reports the New York Times: “A passenger on a flight that landed just after the accident told the BBC that the Spanair plane lifted off briefly but landed hard on its left wing, and then the left part of the aircraft collapsed.”

* Updated/edited 4:24 PT

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