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Madrid Plane Crash
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-08-21 09:25


Relatives of a passenger on the Spanair jet which crashed are taken to a gathering area at the Las Palmas Airport on the Canary Island of Gran Canaria August 20, 2008. A jetliner heading to the popular Canary Islands vacation resort crashed during takeoff Wednesday, turning a wooded area off the end of a runway into a hellish scene of charred bodies and smoldering wreckage. Some 153 were believed dead. [Agencies]