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Jet With 104 Aboard Crashes in Libya

An Afriqiyah Airways plane crashed while landing Wednesday morning at the airport in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, with 93 passengers and 11 crew members aboard, the airline said.
A rescue operation was under way, but the airline said it had no immediate information about casualties. The BBC cited unnamed airport officials as saying there were no survivors.
A BBC correspondent in Tripoli said the weather was good and skies were clear on Wednesday morning.
The crash occurred at 6:10 a.m., the airline said.
The flight originated in Johannesburg and was due to stop in Tripoli before continuing on to London Gatwick. The airline’s schedule indicated the plane was an Airbus A330-200 configured for a capacity of 253 passengers.
Afriqiyah Airways, with its hub in Tripoli, was founded in 2001. It has 13 aircraft in its fleet and flies to 25 countries, principally in Africa, Europe and the Middle East.