Seven Lufthansa passengers had seats on Madrid plane

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German airline Lufthansa said on Wednesday that seven passengers with Lufthansa tickets, four of them from Germany, had checked in for a Spanair flight that later crashed on takeoff from Madrid.

"Whether they were actually on board is still not clear," Lufthansa said in a statement.

Lufthansa and Spanair have a code-share agreement.

(Reporting by Sylvia Westall and Michael Shields)