A passenger jet takes off as smoke rises from the scene of the crash where a Spanair MD-82 jet bound for Las Palmas in the Canary Islands skidded off the runway and crashed at Madrid's Barajas airport on August 20, 2008. A jetliner heading to the popular Canary Islands vacation resort crashed during takeoff Wednesday, turning a wooded area off the end of a runway into a hellish scene of charred bodies and smoldering wreckage. Some 153 were believed dead. [Agencies]