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MADRID, Spain - A Spanair MD-82 jetliner bound for the Canary Islands crashed during takeoff Wednesday. An estimated 153 were believed dead. The crash of Spanair flight JK5022 is Spain's worst aviation accident in almost 25 years.

According to Magdalena Alvarez, Spain's Development Minister whose department oversees civil aviation in Spain, only 19 people survived the crash at Madrid's Barajas International Airport. Some of those survivors are still in critical condition.

Spanair has not released the death toll, but a company spokesperson said the plane carried 172 passengers and crew, including two babies and 20 youngsters. No one has said how many children died.

Spanair is a Spanish company but is wholly owned by Scandinavian Airlines. Investigators are searching for clues to help determine what caused the accident. Foul play has reportedly been ruled out according to Alvarez who also said that the crash is being treated as an accident. She confirmed that the plane's "black box" data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have been recovered.

Flight JK5022 which originated in Barcelona and was bound for the city of Las Palmas was a code-share with Flight LH255 of the German airline Lufthansa.

This plane crash is Spain's worst air disaster since 1983, when a an Avianca Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid killing 181 people. In 1985, a Boeing 727 operated by Iberia Airlines crashed near Bilbao, Spain killing 148 people.

The deadliest airline disaster in history also occurred in Spain killing 583 people. That 1977 plane crash involved two Boeing 747s which collided on a runway in the Canary Islands.

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Airplane crash leaves four dead and many injured.

A passenger jet bound for Miami, Florida crashed when it overshot a runway, traveled onto a busy Honduras street and ultimately struck an embankment. four people were killed including the pilot and 81others were injured.

Among the injured passengers was Gen. Daniel Lopez Carballo, the former head of Honduras' armed forces.

The Grupo Taca Airbus 320 which had 124 people on board, was attempting to land when it overshot the runway. It smashed nose-first into an embankment and buckled and broke in places. The pilot and co-pilot were trapped inside the cockpit.

According to Cesar Villalta, director of Honduras' military hospital, rescuer workers had to pry open part of the wreckage to get them out but the pilot died in the plane crash.

One passenger was Harry Brautigam, the head of a regional development bank. He died of heart failure shortly after the crash. One man on the ground who was believed to be a taxi driver was also killed. His body was trapped under the plane's wreckage.

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Central Florida - Florida personal injury lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of John Graziano, who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury in an automobile accident last August.

The defendants - wrestling superstar, Hulk Hogan and his family. Graziano's parents are suing Hogan under Florida's "Dangerous Instrumentality Doctrine" which holds the owner of an automobile vicariously responsible for the negligent operation of that vehicle.

Experienced Florida personal injury lawyers know how to use Florida's laws to achieve substantial compensation for their seriously injured clients.

Hogan's son, Nick Bollea, was driving a car registered in his father's name at the time of the crash.

The August 2007 auto accident (see my post on March 13th about this crash) left Bollea's friend, Graziano with permanent brain damage and other serious injuries that will require daily nursing care for the rest of his life.

Bollea faces charges of reckless driving involving serious bodily injury. He will be tried on these charges next month.

The Graziano family filed a lawsuit against Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea), his wife Linda and son Nick, charging them with negligence.

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