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  • Over 100 dead in Tripoli airport plane crash, 8-year-old sole survivor

    05/12/2010 3:03:18 AM PDT · by James C. Bennett · 22 replies · 1,821+ views
    The Times of India ^ | May 12, 2010, 02.01pm IST | The Times of India
    TRIPOLI: An eight-year-old Dutch boy was the sole survivor when a Libyan plane arriving from South Africa exploded on landing at Tripoli airport on Wednesday, killing more than 100 people, officials said. Afriqiyah Airways listed 93 passengers and 11 crew members on board its flight 8U771 from Johannesburg. "I can confirm the crash but not the number of the dead," said Bongani Sithole, an official of the airline at Johannesburg airport. "We hear that it happened one metre (yard) away from the runway." A Libyan security official earlier said that all those on board the Airbus A330 had died but...