Spanair 5022 Off Runway In Madid on T/O

[Tanner_J]

No real details...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe...rid/index.html

[ultraflight]

7 dead it is feared and more injured. Fire in one engine on take off. (BBC TV)

[ultraflight]

Flight JK5022 destined to Gran Canaria. No info on type etc. Departure from "Terminal T4" (Radio Television Española)
A/C is an MD-80, runway = 36 (ABC newspaper website)

[tra738]

According to Dutch radio at least 7 people are dead and 20 are injured. Around 160 pax where on board the Spanair plane.
According to http://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/news/?id=27313 (sorry Dutch only) the plane was a MD-82.

Tra738

[delta092b]

Aircraft type MD-82. El Pais reporting 20 people dead.

[turbotraker]

Death toll has gone up to at least 21 (BBC)

[tra738]

Originally Posted by turbotraker

Death toll has gone up to at least 21 (BBC)

http://headlines.nos.nl/ (dutch only) also reports at least 21 fatalities.

R.I.P

Tra738

[G-DALE]

Early reports state atleast 25 dead and 57 injured now The aircraft is an MD-82, reg. EC-HFP. The plane aborted first attempt at take off - returned to the gate for mechanical check.. on the second attempt reports of an explosion on engine no. 1, aircraft has come to rest between two runways.

PhotoID: 6274538 Photograph © A.Bacallado

[ultraflight]

Website by newspaper El Mundo now claims that 100 people have been killed. 21 people have been pulled from the A/C badly wounded. I fear for the rest of the 166 people on board.

[G-DALE]

Reports are now stating that all but 25 of 175 passengers are dead

[turbotraker]

I dare say there will be a few wild numbers given about casualties. Sky news are now reporting (from Spanish Emergency Services) that there are 25 survivors from the 173 passengers on board.

It is a sad day.

[Tbun]

One engine blew parts out thru the fuselage and took the other out? or... took the tail out.

Poor design again.

[turbotraker]

Originally Posted by Tbun

One engine blew parts out thru the fuselage and took the other out?
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Nobody knows yet, I am sure they will want to get to the cause of this accident asap. There are 'reports' of an engine 'problem'.

[ultraflight]

[img]file:///Users/mini/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.jpg[/img][img]file:///Users/mini/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot-1.jpg[/img]Drawing of the airport lay-out with the place of the accident. (El Pais)

[JPL]

A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway and caught fire during takeoff from the Madrid airport......


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/...rport_accident

[Tbun]

Ironic image on google earth at the airport. Follow the runway and an MD shadow is seen 'burnt' into the grass.

[LX-A343]

Doesn't look good. Apparently many people died, but I won't post numbers, as they differ from source to source.

It was EC-HFP

Gerardo

[Alessandro]

Yes, left engine is supposed to have caught fire, the flight was also a codeshare flight with Lufthansa.

[C-FMWQ]

I was watching the news and apparently at least 45 people air dead and rest are injured. They were saying it was an engine fire on takeoff. here's the link from Spanair's website. There were 164 passengers and 9 crew members. The incident occurred at 14:45 Madrid time and 08:45 Eastern time

JK 5022 was an MD82 from Madrid to Palma de Majorca

http://www.spanair.com/web/en-gb/DSi...ficial-notice/

RIP and Condolences to all the victims of JK 5022
C-FMWQ

[RingwaySam]

Terrible news. BBC now reporting 100+ have died. It just shows how lucky the passengers of the Air France A340 crash at Toronto and the British Airways 777 at London Heathrow were.

Originally Posted by C-FMWQ

JK 5022 was an MD82 from Madrid to Palma de Majorca

The flight was flying to Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) in the Canary Islands.