British woman survived Madrid plane inferno after being hurled into a stream by explosion

A stream miraculously saved the life of a British woman hurled, still strapped to her seat, from the exploding Spanair jet.

Teacher Kim Tate, 30, was thrown into a stream from the MD-82 jet, in which 153 people died when the plane crashed seconds after take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport.

Kim was in Row 6 - the exact point where the plane ripped in two - of Spanair flight JK5022.