MADRID, Spain - It was a troubled flight from the beginning. One attempt at takeoff was aborted. Departure was delayed by more than an hour. Passengers, many of them parents traveling with their young children, were grumpy and hot, eager to get on with it, to start their holidays in the alluring Canary Islands.
Several used their cellular telephones to call relatives and report the problems. Finally, they said by phone, the flight was going to take off. It tried. But seconds after Spanair flight JK5022 barreled down a new runway at Madrid's Barajas airport and began to lift off, the jet jerked to the right and plowed into a tree-covered ravine. The fuselage broke into two pieces, maybe more, and burst into flames, according to witnesses at the airport.
At least 153 people …
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