Just outside Madrid on its way to Gran Canaria, tonight CET.
SAS-owned Spanair-plane.
146 dead, 26 survived with third/a few with second degree burn injuries.

It was headed to the Canary Islands.........carlitos, mi amigo, are you okay?

[www.aftonbladet.se]

Carlitos lives in Northern Tenerife; plane headed towards Las Palmas
at Gran Canaria. Hope he had no business on the sibling isand.

153 confirmed dead at the moment.

I hope Carlitos and the other people I know are ok too! This is a horrible thing to see and watch. I've been to Madrid and have flown on Spanair. Flown one hell of alot my self and it's a scary thought.

CBII

Incredible tragedy ,thoughts and wishes go out to all who lost their loved ones.

Carlitos,are you ok ?

This has me a bit concerned now. He's been posting here nearly daily about the Olympic games and several other topics. Give a shout out Carlitos.

CBII

So sorry
so sad & scary

Hope all is well with everybody. Unfortunately seems like many casualities. Best wishes to all involved.

What a tragedy. Sorry to the familys and friends of the victims.
¿Donde estas Carlitos?
Espero que tu y los tuyos estéis bien.

Here I am, Thanks to all of you to be worried about this horrific tragedy and worried for me, thank you all of you indeed.
Been calling all day and night yesterday to Gran Canaria. Si, I live in Tenerife,it´s just at the left handise of Gran Canaria. This flight of Spaniar JK5022 had destiny Gran Canaria from Madrid, at right now 153 people had passed away, one passanger is still missing, a couple minutes ago, a baby was found, 19 people have survived. The whole country is shaked and specially from my region Canary Islands, we are VERY sad for this. Many conjectures and hypothesis are being talked, but since we know what experts listen from black boxes and other things we won´t know what happened.
At the moment, we already know 100%, the plane had one hour delay to take off beacuse technical problems and captain decided to abort one time to take off.and return to parking lot, check the picture with the report.
Some information if you need to know something because this flight was shared with Lufthansa, Spanair is owned by Scandinavian Airlines SAS, Star alliance Group and at this moment the airlener was involved in lots of problems as restructurations due to economy, lay off, etc. Even two hours before the accident, the Union of Pilots critized the way Spanair took the economy of the airline. MD-82 was the plane involved in the acident, the airline wanted this year get rid this type of plane due to they waste more gas for example than Airbus more than 25 %. Again TV channels, press remind us plane crash accident in Spain as Tenerife 1977, 587 people died over here in my island, PanAm and KLM airplanes were involved. Since 1983 no accident were noticed in Madrid Barajas, and since 1998 was last one plane accident in Spain, in a flight between Malaga and Melilla.
Again hoping families of you and people are fine, and thank you to worry about me,
keep informing you,
A 3 minutes of silence in the whole country is right now being celebrated in honour the victims, in one hour in Canary Islands will do the same
Carlitos
Tenerife

Animated recreation of the fatal accident,

[estrelladigital.es]


Carlitos
Tenerife

good to hear you're ok, dude.

Condolences and thoughts, to all those involved.

Canary Press this morning and the rest of the country.
Carlitos
Tenerife

Great to hear from you Carlos!

Sad day amigo Jordi for all of us!!

Thanks you to ALL!!!

Carlitos
Tenerife

Good to hear from you; a sad day for all though. My thoughts are with all with friends or family on the flight...

Good to see you are ok man. A prayer to those that lost their lives is in order.

CBII

...yes, what CBII said

A sad day.

Great to hear from you carlitos.

Just want to send my thoughts & prayers to the victims & their families.
Great to see Carlitos is OK too.

What a tragedy, what a sad day. But glad that you are OK Carlitos.

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CBII
Good to see you are ok man. A prayer to those that lost their lives is in order.

Ditto CBII and Lukester.

"No Anchovies, Please"

Muy triste. RIP.

Swedish woman in her 50s survived with a few broken ribs. [www.aftonbladet.se]

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Baboon Bro
Swedish woman in her 50s survived with a few broken ribs. [www.aftonbladet.se]

Actually, she's a Finn, just living in Sweden, and married to a Swede.
[www.iltalehti.fi]

- Doxa

What a tragedy.

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Doxa

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Baboon Bro
Swedish woman in her 50s survived with a few broken ribs. [www.aftonbladet.se]

Actually, she's a Finn, just living in Sweden, and married to a Swede.
[www.iltalehti.fi]

- Doxa

Finnish woman, just living in Sweden, and married to a Swede, in her 50s survived with a few broken ribs.

Hope our polythousand year long Finn-Swede cultural unity might excuse my rushy post.

I wasn´t in the mood yesterday, so today some pics of the horrible tradegy. People helping, the king, queen, princes, president of the nation, mayors all over Spain, etc.
Images of the Canary Parlament this morning over here in Tenerife, Canary Islands, with the flags at half-mast.
According to the press info and Spanair, German and French from shared flights of Lufthansa and Air France passed away, 71 Canary citizen at the moment died, and people other regions in Spain died as well, 17 child and 2 infants passed away.
Lots of couple for their honey moon died as well, full families, etc, sad, sad, sad.
Full list of passangers over here if you want to know the nacionalities,
[www.elpais.com]

Carlitos
Tenerife

Police investigation have revealed family of victims have messages at their cell phone before the crash, telling "pilot didn´t want to take off" beacause left engine failed, a passanger asked to leave the plane and he wasn´t allowed.
Vice President of Spain has declared, they already have video images of the accident, and investigators are cheking them.
Workers at Barajas Airport assure working there the preassure is enormous "beacause airplanes have to take off", according to stadistic of European Union, right now Madrid exceed Heathrow right now in operations by day, being the first one in Europe.
Another interactive graphic, just click on Comenzar down below, right hand side, and then click on the arrow to continue

[www.elmundo.es]


Carlitos
Tenerife