Sad news: Libyan Plane Crash

[Geoff W]

http://www.theage.com.au/world/105-killed-in-libyan-plane-crash-official-20100512-uxou.html

from the Age.

Regards,

Geoff

[D Chan]

from photos it seems weather / visibility was not an issue, and judging by the wreckage it looks as though the aircraft hit the ground with a lot of force - none of the fuselage is recognisable. Wonder what happened ..

[Matt Coughran]

Many different reports are being made on the aircrafts final moments. Like always. But some reports are saying there were many go-arounds due to visibility, yet others are visibility was fine!

I understand they said the aircraft exploded but could this be another linked problem with like what happened to Cathay a few months back with no power to engines?

What ever the reason behind the crash is aircraft related I hope Airbus get these A330's fixed Quickly, When you think about it we are just lucky that QF's A330 landed safely.

Cheers
Matt

[Andrew P]

What ever the reason behind the crash is aircraft related I hope Airbus get these A330's fixed Quickly,

Cheers
Matt

so Afriqiyah Airways is going to rebuild the airplane?

[Peter Agatsiotis]

5A-ONG A330-202 (1024), a very recent addition, was the a/c involved.

[Lee G]

As pointed out by someone on PPrune forum - one of the photos of the tail shows a mosque in the background. If the same mosque is brought up on Google maps http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=32.660911,13.119221&spn=0.002132,0.003439&t=h&z=18, it places the aircraft about 150 metres to the south of the runway centreline and about 300 metres from the runway threshold - that's a considerable way from where it should have been.

[Mark Grima]

Looking at the postitive side of this story, the young boy who some how survived. Truely quite an amazing story. I am not religious at all, don't believe in any higher being or 'fate' but events like this certainly make me wonder.

By the sounds of it physically he will be fine. I hope he gets the mental support he needs, if the rpeorts are correct that he is dutch and 61 other Dutch people were killed chances are he has lost a lot of family and freinds.

Cheers

M

[Sarmad Al-Khozaie]

Here she is, managed to capture her back in Dubai in NOV2009.:(

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Afriqiyah-Airways/Airbus-A330-203/1615796/L/&sid=32170c6587d37f67b42cfe773d8be0d6

[Danny Rizk]

Very sad news indeed...
RIP to all those who lost their lives.

[Matt Coughran]

so Afriqiyah Airways is going to rebuild the airplane?

Andrew...... I said "these" as in all the A330's in the world which are still flying. Not "This or The" A330, As we have seen in pictures i don't think superglue will put this one back together.