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By Damian Corrigan, About.com Guide to Spain Travel

Madrid Plane Crash Survivors Speak

Thursday August 21, 2008
When an accident kills close to 90% of those involved, it is a miracle that any at all survive. But 19 did, and some of the least injured have begun to speak about the crash.

Among the survivors is eight-year-old Alfredo Jesús Acosta Mendiola, one of three children to have survived the accident. Approximately 20 children were aboard.

The Spanish medical services are among the best in the world. Of the thousands injured in the Madrid Bombings of 2004, not a single person died on the way to the hospital. The fact that survivors of yesterday's Madrid plane crash are already speaking out about the ordeal is further testament to the quality of Spain's rescue workers, paramedics, doctors and nurses.

You can read the survivors' accounts in this Guardian article.

The deceased came from 12 countries: Spain, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Sweden, Italy, Columbia, Brazil, Mauritania, Turkey, Indonesia and Gambia. Most were resident on the Canary Islands.

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