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At least 145 people are feared dead after a passenger plane swerved off the runway at Madrid's Barajas Airport in Spain. The Spanair flight carrying 166 passengers and 9 crew en route for the Canary Islands was about to take off when the tragedy occurred, mid-afternoon Spanish time.

It is believed one of the plane's engines caught fire before the plane crashed and burst into flames. There are unconfirmed reports of 28 survivors, eight of them in critical condition, who were flung from the plane by the force of the impact and landed in a stream, saving them from more severe burns.

Guests

Al Goodman
CNN correspondent at Madrid's Barajas Airport

Reporter

Michel Panayotov, International Editor

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