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Plane Crashes in Libya, 104 Believed Dead
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A Libyan plane arriving from South Africa crashed at Tripoli airport on Wednesday, AFP reported.
Updated May 12, 2010
BREAKING NEWS -- An eight-year-old Dutch boy is believed to be the sole survivor of a plane crash at Tripoli airport Wednesday that killed more than 100 people, an airport official said.
Flight 8U771, an Airbus A330, was carrying 94 passengers and 11 crew members, an airport official told AFP on condition of anonymity. It was thought that all the remaining 104 people on board had died.
There was no immediate indication of the cause of the crash, which occurred as the Afriqiyah Airways plane was landing after a flight from Johannesburg.
A spokeswoman for Afriqiyah Airways confirmed that the plane crash-landed during its final approach to Tripoli International Airport.
It had departed from South Africa at 9:30 p.m. local time Tuesday and was scheduled to land in Tripoli at 6.20 a.m. local time Wednesday.
The airline said it did not know how many people had been killed or how many people were on board.
Afriqiyah Airways was founded in April 2001 and was at first fully owned by the Libyan state. The company's capital was later divided into shares to be managed by the Libya-Africa Investment Portfolio.
On April 21, the airline announced that flights were back to normal after disruptions due to the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland that grounded flights in Europe last month.
NewsCore
A Libyan plane arriving from South Africa crashed at Tripoli airport on Wednesday, AFP reported.
Updated May 12, 2010
BREAKING NEWS -- An eight-year-old Dutch boy is believed to be the sole survivor of a plane crash at Tripoli airport Wednesday that killed more than 100 people, an airport official said.
Flight 8U771, an Airbus A330, was carrying 94 passengers and 11 crew members, an airport official told AFP on condition of anonymity. It was thought that all the remaining 104 people on board had died.
There was no immediate indication of the cause of the crash, which occurred as the Afriqiyah Airways plane was landing after a flight from Johannesburg.
A spokeswoman for Afriqiyah Airways confirmed that the plane crash-landed during its final approach to Tripoli International Airport.
It had departed from South Africa at 9:30 p.m. local time Tuesday and was scheduled to land in Tripoli at 6.20 a.m. local time Wednesday.
The airline said it did not know how many people had been killed or how many people were on board.
Afriqiyah Airways was founded in April 2001 and was at first fully owned by the Libyan state. The company's capital was later divided into shares to be managed by the Libya-Africa Investment Portfolio.
On April 21, the airline announced that flights were back to normal after disruptions due to the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland that grounded flights in Europe last month.
