Spanish plane skids off Madrid airport runway
MADRID (AFP) — A Spanish jet skidded off the runway and crashed at Madrid airport Wednesday and billowing smoke came from the wreckage, television images showed.
It was not immediately known if there were casualties on the Spanair flight which media reports said had caught fire.
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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