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The two flight data recorders from the Spanish airliner that crashed last week killing 154 people have been sent to Britain for further analysis, a top official of the Spanish investigative commission said Tuesday.

British investigators have been able to extract from the recorders the pilots' final conversations and other valuable information, but they are trying to improve the quality of the data for better analysis, said Francisco Javier Soto at a nationally televised news conference in Madrid.

Soto said the Spanair MD82 plane managed to rise only slightly from Madrid's airport before coming down quickly to the right of the runway, its tail section hitting the ground first, just off the asphalt. Read full article »

CNN's Madrid Bureau Chief Al Goodman contributed to this report.

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