May 12, 2010 9:03 PM

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Over 100 people killed in Libyan plane crash; 8-year old child survives

A Libyan plane arriving from South Africa disintegrated on landing at Tripoli airport today, killing 103 people but leaving an eight-year-old boy as the sole miracle survivor. An official in The Hague said 61 Dutch citizens were killed while Libyan Transport Minister Mohammed Ali Zidan listed Libyans, Africans and Europeans among the dead.Zidan told a media conference that an inquiry is under way to determine what caused the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330 to break up massively as it was landing, but he ruled out terrorism. Libyan television showed teams of emergency workers sifting through the wreckage of the plane, which was scattered in a wide arc across the landing area. There were 104 people on board — 93 passengers and 11 crew members. The remains of 96 victims had already been recovered.There was only one survivor, an eight-year-old Dutch boy and he is in good shape in a Tripoli hospital. Witnesses spoke of the plane inexplicably breaking up asit came down to land in clear weather at around 0400 GMT.

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