May 13 (*la*hmberg) -- An Airbus SAS jets black box voice and data recorders were recovered from the wreckage of the Afriqiyah Airways flight that crashed on landing in Tripoli, Libya, killing all but one of the 104 people on board.
Rescue workers recovered 96 bodies after yesterdays accident along with the flight recorders, Libyas official JANA news agency said, citing Transportation Minister Mohamed Zeidan. The 93 passengers included 62 Dutch tourists, of whom one, a child, survived, according to Markus van Tol, a spokesman for the ANWB Royal Dutch Tourist Association.
The twin-engine A330 plane crash-landed in the final approach after the flight from Johannesburg, airline spokeswoman Elizabeth McQuiggan said in a telephone interview, adding that its not clear what caused the accident.
The wide-body plane, powered by engines from General Electric Co., first flew on Aug. 12 last year and was delivered new to Afriqiyah Airways on Sept. 8, according to U.K. aviation consultants Ascend Worldwide Ltd. The crash is the second in 12 months involving an A330, and Airbus said it will provide full technical assistance to air-accident investigators.
Zeidan said there is no evidence that terrorism caused the accident, according to JANA. Passengers on the flight came from Britain, Finland, France, Germany, the Philippines and Zimbabwe, as well as Libya, South Africa and the Netherlands, he was reported as saying.