TIMELINE: Spanish air crashes

(Reuters) - About 145 people were killed when a Spanair jet taking holidaymakers to the Canary Islands crashed on takeoff and burst into flames at Madrid airport on Wednesday, an emergency services spokesman said.

Here are some details of some previous major crashes in Spain.

March 27, 1977 - Two Boeing 747 airliners, a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines plane and a Pan American jet, collided and burst into flames on the runway at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. 583 were killed out of a total of 644 on board both aircraft.

April 25, 1980 - A Danair Boeing 727-64 crashes at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing all 146 passengers and crew aboard.

September 13, 1982 - A Spantax McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 crashes while attempting takeoff in Malaga.

November 27, 1983 - An Avianca Boeing 747 crashes during the approach to Madrid, killing 181 of 192 aboard.

December 7, 1983 - An Iberian Airways Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 at Madrid. At least 93 people are killed.

February 19, 1985 - An Iberian Boeing 727-256 crashes while approaching Bilbao. All 148 aboard are killed.

May 13, 1994 - A Piper 44 light aircraft, flying from Malaga to the island of Ibiza with four people on board, slams into a mountain in the Granada region. All four die.

September 27, 1998 - Thirty-six Spaniards and two Moroccans are killed when a BAe-146-100 crashes on its way from Malaga to the Spanish enclave of Melilla in Morocco.

August 29, 2001 - Four people are killed and 16 injured when a Binter Mediterraneo plane, a twin-engined, propeller-driven CN-235, crashes while trying to land in Malaga after a short trip from Melilla.

Sources Reuters/ EFE/www.airdisaster.com

(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit;)