Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771

Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771
	5A-ONG, the aircraft involved in the accident seen on 8 March 2010
Accident
Date	12 May 2010
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain in low visibilty
Site	Near Tripoli International Airport, Tripoli, Libya ; 32°39′41″N 13°7′9″E / 32.66139°N 13.11917°E
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Airbus A330-202
Operator	Afriqiyah Airways
IATA flight No.	8U771
ICAO flight No.	AAW771
Call sign	AFRIQIYAH 771
Registration	5A-ONG
Flight origin	OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa
Destination	Tripoli International Airport, Tripoli, Libya
Occupants	104
Passengers	93
Crew	11
Fatalities	103
Injuries	1
Survivors	1

Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 was a scheduled international Afriqiyah Airways passenger flight that crashed on 12 May 2010 at about 06:01 local time (04:01 UTC) on approach to Tripoli International Airport, about 1,200 metres (3,900 ft; 1,300 yd) short of the runway.^[1]^[2] Of the 104 passengers and crew on board, 103 were killed. The sole survivor was a 9-year-old Dutch boy.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] The crash of Flight 771 was the third hull-loss of an Airbus A330 involving fatalities, occurring eleven months after the crash of Air France Flight 447.^[7]^[8]

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[Afriqiyah-1] "Afriqiyah Flight 771 crash". Afriqiyah Airways. 12 May 2010. Archived from the original on 15 May 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2010.

[BBC8676758-2] "Plane crash in Libya 'kills more than 100'". BBC News. 12 May 2010. Archived from the original on 13 May 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2010.

[3] "Child in 'good condition' after Libyan crash". NBC News. Associated Press. 12 May 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2010.

[NOS-4] "Mogelijk Nederlanders aan boord crash Tripoli" [Possible Dutchmen on board Tripoli crash] (in Dutch). NOS. 12 May 2010. Archived from the original on 15 May 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2010.

[Telegraaf-5] "61 Nederlanders dood bij crash Tripoli" [61 Dutch dead in Tripoli crash]. De Telegraaf (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 15 May 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2010.

[BrabantsDagblad-6] "Ruben wordt uitstekend verzorgd" [Ruben is well cared for]. Brabants Dagblad (in Dutch). 7 October 2010. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2011.

[reuters-7] Cite error: The named reference reuters was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[airsafe-8] "Afriqiyah Airways plane crash in Tripoli, Libya". www.airsafe.com. Retrieved 10 November 2019.

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