Libyan plane with 104 on board crashes in Tripoli
12.05.2010
A plane flying in from Johannesburg carrying 104 people crashed at Tripoli airport in Libya on Wednesday.
The plane “had an accident on landing", the Libyan airline, Afriqiyah, said in a statement.
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There were no immediate reports of the number of dead or injured among the 93 passengers and 11 crew on board.
All the crew were Libyan, along with 11 of the passengers. The remainder were of a variety of other nationalities, an airport official said.
“I can confirm the crash but not the number of the dead,” said Bongani Sithole, the airline’s head of reservations at Johannesburg’s
international airport. “We are waiting for a report from Tripoli to tell us what happened.”
One airline official told reporters than an eight-year-old Dutch boy had been pulled from the crash alive but was the sole survivor.
His account could not be verified immediately.
The plane was an Airbus A330-200, according to airline websites.
A South African foreign ministry spokesman said the plane was registered as missing and the situation was being monitored.
There were also believed to be South African nationals on board.
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