Spanair..
he tail of the crashed Spainair plane sticks out as firefighters and members of resue service wor at the crash scene where a Spanair aircraft crashed on take off from Barajas Airport, Madrid, 20 August 2008.
It was heading for Gran Canaria. Spain's civil aviation chief has said that the aeroplane that crashed on Wednesday, leaving 153 people dead, must have suffered more than one kind of failure. Some witnesses had said the aircraft's left engine caught fire as the plane was taking off, although authorities never confirmed this. "The video shows that the plane caught fire only after it hit the ground," the paper said. engine failure alone would not be enough to bring the aeroplane down because modern aircraft are designed to fly on just one engine in an emergency.


Intake 'not cause' The aeroplane's takeoff from Madrid's Barajas airport had been initially delayed because of a mechanical problem with what the airline called an air intake valve near the cockpit. Experts, however, said the repaired valve could not have caused the crash - Spain's worst air disaster in 25 years. Only 19 people survived the crash of the Spanair twin-engine plane bound for the Canary Islands. Relatives of those killed in the crash continued on Friday to identify the bodies. Many bodies were burned beyond recognition and forensic teams are taking DNA samples from relatives.
Only 50 sets of remains have so far been identified.

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http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-22-voa17.cfm
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=617266