TIMES ONLINE: More than 100 people were killed when a plane crashed on landing at Tripoli airport in Libya this morning. Seven on board were bound for London and only an 8-year-old Dutch boy survived.
The Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200 was carrying 93 passengers, reportedly including Britons and South Africans, as well as 11 Libyan crew. The flight left Johannesburg on Tuesday night and crashed at 6am local time. “It exploded on landing and totally disintegrated,” a security official said.
A Foreign & Commonwealth Office spokesman told The Times that a team from the embassy had gone to Tripoli airport to investigate unconfirmed reports of Britons killed in the crash. "Consular staff in Tripoli are urgently seeking further details," he said.
All passengers and crew were killed apart from the boy. The child was said to be "in a good condition" in a local hospital but was undergoing surgery for injuries including broken bones. >>> Tristan McConnell and Joanna Sugden | Wednesday, May 12, 2010
