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Madrid Air Crash: Update
21st August 2008 Accident investigators are examing the wreckage of Spanair flight JK 5022. The plane which was bound for Las Palmas in the Canary Islands crashed during take off at Madrid's Barajas airport, leaving 153 passengers dead.Three days of official mourning have been declared in Madrid, as relatives arrive at a makeshift mortuary in the capital to identify bodies.
Nineteen people survived the crash - some remain in a critical condition.
source: BBC News
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