MADRID: At least 21 people were killed when a Spanair passenger jet crashed on takeoff at Madrid airport on Wednesday and 40 were hurt, a source at Spanish emergency services said.
A Spanish jet skidded off the runway and crashed at Madrid airport Wednesday and billowing smoke came from the wreckage, television images showed.
An emergency services spokesman, quoted by Spanish national radio, said the plane had been attempting an emergency landing just after taking off from the airport.
Eleven fire trucks were at the scene.
A spokesman for the fire service at Madrid's Barajas airport said the plane had a capacity of 166 passengers.
Spanair is Spain's second biggest airline after Iberia and is a subsidiary of Scandinavian carrier SAS.
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