Madrid Airplane Crash

[Scott]

www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/20/madrid-airplane.html

I'm sure most of you have heard the news regarding the airplane crash in Madrid that has killed over 150 people. The airplane was apparently heading to Las Palmas .. which I think is where at least one of the super-C's stopped for refueling in the Canary's.

[Retrovision]

Oddly enough, while photographing the Queen of the North during her last dry docking, I also captured this fuselage of an MD-81, very similar to the plane that crashed in Madrid:


flickr.com/photos/bctransit/2796839140

...And by using this fuselage's id marking on the side, I was able track it to being this exact plane seen here:
www.airliners.net/photo/Continental-Airlines/McDonnell-Douglas-MD-81/0100243/L/&width=900&height=575&sok=&sort=&photo_nr=&prev_id=&next_id=

I assume it was destroyed when I saw it to be used as a movie prop or something similar.