The Afriqiyah Airways flight from Johannesburg had been due to land at 0610 local (0410 GMT), they said. The plane crashed close to the airport. The 94 passengers on board the Airbus 330 are believed to be of various nationalities, including British and South African. The 11 crew were all thought to be Libyan nationals, an employee said. The plane had been due to go on to London Gatwick airport after stopping in Tripoli.
The BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says it was not clear whether the plane was on the runway when it crashed, but she says that people she spoke to at the airport said they could not see the plane. Ambulances have been going back and forth to the airport, our correspondent say
Confirmed as 5A-ONG from ModeS report from South Africa.
Latest (unconfirmed) BBC report states there is just one survivor a Dutch child.
Looks like 2 survivors now
Amazing how anyone could survive.
Truly amazing how anyone could survive this, the debris spread over a wide area, indicates some kind of explosion, note in the video there are no large section of aircraft left
Really terrible.
If anyone is interested, I got a video about a month back of this same A330 laning at Gatwick, link here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZJbVAq-vQ8
Just looking at some numbers for 5A-ONG A330-202 , the frame would have only done about 1900 hours flying, delivered to Afriqiyah Airways on the 09/09/2009. so around 9 months old.