MADRID , Spain ( CNN ) -- A woman who survived last week 's Spanair airline crash in Madrid left the hospital Tuesday , saying she was `` born again '' by the disaster . Beatriz Reyes has been released from hospital after surviving the plane crash which killed 154 people . Beatriz Reyes , 41 , has been credited with saving two of the three children who survived the crash which killed 154 people . She is the second survivor to be sent home , while 16 others remained hospitalized Tuesday . The first to leave the hospital was a 6-year-old boy , apparently one of the children Reyes helped in the moments after the Spanair MD-82 airliner crashed on takeoff from Madrid 's Bajaras airport Wednesday . `` I saw some kids and I got them out , '' Reyes said . `` I think anyone would have done it . '' All 18 who survived were seated in the front section of the plane , the only part not to catch fire . Reyes was in seat 5-D. She said she remained conscious throughout the crash . `` I felt a strong blow and then my stomach went up and down , '' she said . `` That 's when I knew there was an accident . '' She said it was ironic that she was treated in the maternity ward at Hospital Infanta Sofia in the Madrid suburb of San Sebastian de los Reyes . `` On the 20th of August , I have been born again , '' she said . She was returning home from a vacation in Germany when she boarded the flight to the city of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands . Reyes said she will continue to fly , a necessity for her job as a bank executive in the Canary Islands . Going home to the Canary Islands , she said , will be hard since the bodies of many of the dead will be arriving there with her . Initially , there were indications an engine might have caught fire as the plane was taking off , but a source familiar with the investigation said that an airport video showed the plane lifting off , veering sharply right , and then dragging or skidding down the right side of the runway . There is a cloud of dust , the source said , followed by a fireball . The crash remains under investigation . CNN 's Madrid Bureau Chief Al Goodman contributed to this report .
Someone who survived the crash in Madrid says she has been ` ` once again '' Beatriz Reyes , 41 , saved one of the three people who survived the crash . Reyes remained conscious throughout the crash which killed 154 people .