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A passenger plane flying from Johannesburg to Tripoli has crashed near Tripoli airport, killing more than 100 people on board, Libyan officials say. The Afriqiyah Airways A330 plane had been due arrive at 0400 GMT, when it crashed while attempting to land at the airport in the Libyan capital, an airline spokeswoman said. She said she could not confirm whether there were any fatalities.
"At the moment we have no details of survivors and Afriqiyah Airways will issue further statements when more details can be released in due course," she said.
Officials say 93 passengers and 11 crew were on board the Airbus 330. They are said to be of various nationalities, including British and South African. According to Libya’s state news agency said 96 bodies had been recovered. A Dutch child is the only survivor in crash. At the crash site, workers with surgical masks combed through the smoldering wreckage that spilled over a large area. A wheel lay atop a pile of bags. Two green airline seats sat upright and intact amid burned parts of the aircraft.
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