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A Spanair flight departing Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain for the Canary Islands crashed and burned, killing many of the 167 passengers onboard. Of the disaster victims, most were vacationers. Eyewitnesses stated that the crashe was extremely violent in nature, presumably catching fire shortly after leaving the runway, then exploding in flames and a thousand pieces.

So far there is no determination as to what went wrong and certainly far too early in the process to arrive at any conclusion. However, what IS known is that the plane aborted its first takeoff attempt for reasons that were not identified, save for the fact it was technical in nature. On the second attempt, Spanair flight JK5022 failed to clear the runway and crashed into a wooded area at the end of the runway at Terminal 4.