Scores of people have been killed after a Spanair jet crashed on takeoff at Madrid airport.

The government claims at least 45 people have died but an emergency services source has reported about 150 fatalities. A large cloud of smoke billowed at Terminal Four from the remains of flight JK5022's MD82 jet for Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. It shot off the runway carrying 164 passengers and nine crew.

--Reuters.

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