The account above in the Daily Telegraph is a bit "off context".
The survivor is first talking about the first aborted take-off when it refers to the captain saying "a red light has turned on" and he didn't know what it was. Later, it seems, he informed the passengers it was a "heat senso alarm" and "was repaired by the technician" during the aprox. 1 hour it took to go back to gate, bring in the technician, do the "repairs" (confirmed to have been some sort of "switch-off" or bypass) and get ready for take-off again.
The later part of her statements do refer to the accident during the "second" take-off, when the accident happened.
Not sure if you are referring to the Aena Barajas airport security cameras pointing to the airstrip, which recorded the accident. The footage is not available, but at least one spanish newspapers has cited sources within the investigation that has viewed the footage and describes it as, basically, there was no explosion or (big) engine fire during "take off", the front wheels (at least) left the ground (possibly back wheels as well, but not openly stated), a wing touched the floor whle coming down again, no (big, visible) fire started at least until the plane was fully on the ground ("hard" landed, bounced around, etc).
Sorry to be so vague, but that's what the (major) newspaper reporter has said and therefore other accounts are more speculative. My personal take is that it briefly took off without visible problems and few seconds after full ascend commenced something, either a mechanical fault/accidental damage/stall or a pilot decission, made it come down again and attempt to "land", resulting in problems that led to lack of control, damage (reportedly wing hitting the ground) and runing-off the side (not the end) of the airstrip at high speed into enviromental obstacles which caused brekage and fire.
But only a the facts stated above are "confirmed" (as reported through a newspaper citing footage viewer, which as we know, may also be innacurate). My account is totally speculative.
Windshear or bad atmospheric conditions seemed unlikely. Other than low wind low air density and high ambient temperature, conditions seemed good enough.
Last edited by justme69; 23rd Aug 2008 at 02:23.