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MADRID AIR CRASH

Video showing Spain air crash released

09/19/2008

The newspaper El Pais aired the one-minute video on its Web site on Thursday. Watch the video.

Airport security video of last month's plane crash in Madrid that killed 154 people shows the aircraft just barely getting off the ground, then skidding and erupting in a ball of fire and a column of black smoke.

The newspaper El Pais aired the one-minute video on its Web site on Thursday.

The daily newspaper said the footage came from AENA, the government agency which runs Spain's airports.

The Aug. 20 crash of a Spanair MD-82 flying from Madrid to the Canary Islands killed 154 of the 172 people on the plane.

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