Ministry in charge of airports explains to the goverment what happened:
13.10: Airplane taxies to begining of runaway 36L.
13.25: Ground control grants permission to T/O. The pilot decides to go back to parking area instead for the temperature probe problem we all know. Spanair informs airport that it's going to switch planes. Later calls back to say it will continue to use the same one for the flight.
14.15: Plane taxies again for new TO.
14.23: Traffic control authorizes TO from 36L.
14.25: Official time for the accident. Tower control warns airport fire squad when they notice smoke.
14.26: Tower control warns airport operations. Another tower also sends out the call.
14.28: Fire squad locates the first pieces of the airplane and confirms the accident. They warn about difficulties to access the area due to the smoke and fire. They start dealing with the fire and rescuing victims.
14.29: Airport emergency protocol is activated: calls to 112 (911), etc.
14.30: Calls to internal airport resources. Dispatch of all medical personnel present at the airport.
14.32: Direct calls to City of Madrid specialised rescue system SAMUR (
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14.33: Calls directly to city of Madrid firefighting squad (already warned by 112) to agree on meeting point and facilitate access to T4 and directions to place of accident.
14.42: External help begins to arrive. First external assests to reach T4 were 5 firefigthing trucks. (Madrid airport, like most airports in large cities, is kind of in a remote area, although not as far away from the city as some other airports).
14.43: Airport Calls placed to civil aviation accident commissions to coordinate.
More rescue assests start to join efforts from then on.
07.00 Aug 21: Civil Aviation Accident Commision authorizes the use of the runaway involved in the accident for normal operation.