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

• PLUS: The only surviving member of the 10-strong Spanair crew also tells of the horrifying moment the plane juddered violently before she was flung into a ditch

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.

Wrecked: Firefighters and rescue workers survey the Spanair crash scene

She was found lying semi-conscious in nearby water by rescue workers, according to a Sunday paper.

Kim is expected to make a full recovery, despite suffering a broken left arm and a punctured lung.

Her brother Glen Tate, 32, told the Sunday Mirror it was 'truly a miracle' that his little sister survived.

'She was thrown out of the gap where the plane ripped apart and landed in a stream. Because she landed in water she has none of the terrible burns most of the other survivors had.

'We cannot believe how lucky she is to be alive. Amazingly, she looks like she could have just survived a really bad bicycle crash.'

Saved: Kim Tate was found semi-conscious in water. Meanwhile emergency vehicles surround the runway area

Glen kept a vigil by his sister's bed in intensive care at the La Princesa hospital in Madrid.

He said his 'heart stopped' when Kim's boyfriend called him on Wednesday with the terrible news.

'It's impossible to describe how difficult that was. Everyone from the police to the doctors said it's a miracle that she's alive.

'She was in a great deal of pain, so they have sedated her with drugs, but to come away from that crash with the injuries she has is just amazing. The doctors are hoping to reduce her medication and slowly bring her round.'

Glen is optimistic that despite difficulty breathing due to lung damage, his sister is on the mend.

Kim, a Spanish and music teacher, was returning to her Canary Islands home, after a two-week holiday with friends in Bulgaria.

She has dual nationality through her British father and Spanish mother.

Glen said Kim, who plays piano and sings in a choir, was proud to call herself British.

Accident investigators will interview the lucky survivor when given the go-ahead by doctors.

Kim was one of only 19 people who survived Wednesday's horrific plane crash, Europe's worst in a decade.

More than half of the dead were from the Canary Islands.

Meanwhile, details have emerged today about the only surviving member of the ten-strong crew of the Spanair flight - 27-year-old air hostess Antonia Martinez Jimenez.

She remains in intensive care with bruises all over her body, a broken arm, a cracked vertebra, a broken breast bone and a stitched up head wound.

Doctors say the woman, who breathes through a mask, is out of danger and in a better condition than some of the other 18 survivors of the flight.

Ms Martinez, Toni to friends, told relatives at her bedside: 'I felt the plane judder violently to the left, and then right, before it went down.

'Then I felt a sharp blow in my chest that sent me flying several metres. I ended up in a ditch with water in it, which must have protected me from the flames.'

Toni, who lived in Castelldefels near Barcelona, emerged almost without burns and says she owes her life to being seated right at the front of the plane, by the window.

'Flight attendants usually sit at the rear of the plane, but I was right at the front, in seat 1E.

'That part of the plane was hardly burnt. It was a miracle.

'All around me I could hear people crying out for help. They were shouting and calling desperately but I couldn't move, I couldn't do anything.

'A few minutes later I heard the sirens of the rescue teams, I knew they were going to save me.'

As soon as she was carried into an ambulance she asked the nurse to call her parents.

She told them: 'Mama don't worry, I'm alright, a bit knocked about but fine.'