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Madrid plane crash footage released

Dramatic video footage of the Madrid plane crash which killed 154 people has been released.

The August 20 crash of the Spanair MD-82 flight from Madrid to the Canary Islands killed almost all of the 172 people on the plane.

The footage came from the AENA, the government agency which runs Spain's airports.

The video also has a recording of a phone call from the airport control tower to the operation centre.

The caller says she has seen smoke and flames, and thinks there has been an accident involving a plane.

The operation centre worker says she will call the firefighters, and arranges for a camera to cover the runway where the accident took place.

Both women sound shocked by what they are realising has just happened.