Relatives seek to identify Spain crash victims

By Martin Roberts MADRID (Reuters) - Grieving relatives on Thursday tried to identify charred bodies from the wreckage of a Spanish jet, which officials said had been forced to abort a take-off earlier in the day at Madrid airport due to mechanical problems. Airline officials declined to comment on possible causes for Wednesday's tragedy in which 153 people were killed, but said that Spanair Flight JK5022 had been delayed due to a problem with the air intake heating system before it attempted a second takeoff for its flight to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. "They supposedly fixed the problem which the pilot later said was with the air conditioning and then we took off," survivor Ligia Palomino told Ser radio. "The plane was wobbling from one side to another. Then I began to suspect we would crash. I don't know what... [read full story]