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Old 3rd Sep 2008, 16:00
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Originally Posted by Ferrobus
Keep on mind also that the plane skidded out of the runway
Not convinced that we can count that as established fact. There have been reports of skid marks on the runway, but also reports such as this:

Spanair MD-82 struck terrain tail-first: investigators

which implies that the investigators have said that no marks or debis were found on the runway, and that the aircraft got airborne and then impacted tail-first to the right of the runway. I can't find an official document saying that, but my spanish isn't really up to searching through the CIAIAC website properly, so it might be there.
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