Posted AT 7:27 PM EST on 20/08/08
153 dead in Madrid plane crash
MADRID — 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 smouldering wreckage. Some 153 were believed dead — Spain's worst air disaster in nearly 25 years.
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