A Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane with 104 passengers and crew on board, crashed Wednesday as it approached Tripoli International Airport from Johannesburg, South Africa. The bodies of at least 96 people have been recovered and an eight-year old Dutch boy was reported as the lone survivor.
According to media reports, Holland's tourism board said 61 of the crash victims were Dutch. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said the sole known survivor has been hospitalized with injuries that aren't life-threatening.
The plane, an Airbus 330, is owned by Libyan airline, Afriqiyah Airways, and was due to continue from Tripoli to London's Gatwick airport. The plane crashed just after 6 a.m. local time "in an accident during landing," the airline said in a statement on its website. "Every effort is being done to address any failure in our safety management system," it said. "At this moment we cannot speculate further."
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