Friday August 22
 
10:18
 
The Bodies Were So Hot That Police Could Barely Touch Them

You always think that the dangerous time for being in a plane is when it’s in the sky or landing – not during take-off.

A jet owned by the troubled Spanair airline overshot a runway at Madrid’s international airport and exploded into flames.

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“The scene is devastating,” said Pablo Albella, a Madrid city emergency rescue worker. “The fuselage is destroyed. The plane burned. I have seen a kilometre of charred land and few whole pieces of the fuselage.

“It is all destruction,” he added.

A police officer said the bodies were so hot that police could barely touch them and told El Pais the shattered wreckage bore no resemblance to a plane.

smh.com.au reports that no Australians were involved – presumably because they are all in London in IT jobs or drinking booze.

The flight was a code-share with Lufthansa. I have flown with Lufthansa a couple of times. One time, a few years ago, they refused to let me listen to my iPod because “Even though it is legal in the EU to use an MP3 player onboard, in Germany it is illegal.” If they spent less time on irrelevant crap and more time looking at the safety measures of their codeshare partners, maybe this wouldn’t have happened.