More than 140 people were feared killed on Wednesday after a Spanish airliner crashed at the Madrid's Barajas airport in Spain.  

The airlines -- with 173 people on board -- was leaving for the Canary Islands.  Details of the nationalities of the passengers are not yet known, reports

Reports said only 28 people survived the crash, which happened at 14:30 local time. 

Image: Rescue operations in full swing at the accident site.  

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