Spain has held a minute's silence for the victims of Wednesday's plane crash in Madrid, which killed 153 people.
Relatives have been identifying bodies as investigators try to establish why the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft veered off the runway during take-off. Only 19 of the 175 passengers and crew survived the crash, and some are in a critical condition. There are reports that the Spanair jet, destined for Las Palmas on the Canary Islands, had aborted an earlier take-off attempt due to Spanish airliner crash kills at least 145 ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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