Ligia Palomino Riveros: The plane "was moving very slowly" but eventually it became airborne. "But then it made a turn, as if the wing dropped abruptly, We were still very low, very close to the ground. As the plane got higher, it began to wobble from side to side." She lost consciousness, then woke disoriented and thinking a nearby dead man was her husband, yelling "Wake up, wake up, wake up!" at him. "And then the wind shifted and I felt how the smoke was burning me."
Amalia Filloy told the firefighter Francisco Martinez to "save my daughter Maria" instead of her.
Francisco Martinez:“Her mother handed her to us... and the woman stayed behind. There were too few firefighters at the beginning, The girl was totally disoriented, she did not complain or talk despite the great number of serious injuries which she had,” and a six year old “kept asking me if it was true what was happening. He thought it was a film and he kept asking where was his father and when the film would end.”
Manuel Bautista, the Civil Aviation Director General:“A fault in a motor does not cause an accident. Together with other causes it could be what brought down the plane. We have to determine the combination of causes that contributed to it."
There are 19 survivors of the Spanair MD-82 jet crash at the Madrid-Barajas airport. At least 80 of the bodies would have to be identified through DNA testing.
The Facts As We Know Them
- What: Spanair Flight JK5022, a 15-year-old MD-82 jet bound bound for Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
- Where: Madrid airport Terminal Four
- When: Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008 2:45pm
- Who: Carrying 166 passengers and nine crew, at the time of this writing, the number of fatalities had mounted to 145 people.
- Why: The jet swerved off the runway and caught fire during takeoff. Spanish Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación Civil (CIAIAC) is investigating
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