Up to 104 people have been killed in a plane crash in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Libya's Afriqiyah Airways said its Airbus-330 arriving from South Africa was coming in to land when it crashed on Wednesday morning. "Afriqiyah Airways announce that our flight 8U771 had an accident during landing at Tripoli International airport," the airline said on its website. "At this moment we have no information concerning possible casualties or survivors. Our information is that there were 93 passengers and 11 crew aboard." Afriqiyah said "competent authorities are conducting the search and rescue mission". A security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said all passengers and crew members had been killed in the accident.
A source told Al Jazeera that an eight-year-old passenger had survived the crash. There was no immediate indication of why the aircraft arriving from Johannesburg crashed. Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa, reporting from Johannesburg, said the plane was a "fairly new" Airbus. "The airport in South Africa has not yet released details about the nationalities of the passengers," she said. "People are still struggling to find out what actually happened."
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