Pilots question infrastructure and conditions in Tripoli crash

Postings on pilot websites conflict with weather reports yesterday   saying that visibility at the airport was barely 6km and the approach was directly into the rising sun. Pilots also say that Tripoli can be a difficult approach because of the lack of modern navigational aids and landing systems.

The plane - carrying 93 passengers and 11 crew - crashed as it arrived from Johannesburg, South Africa.

  There was just one survivor, a ten year old Dutch boy. Libyan TV last night showed the child who survived being treated in hospital where he is said to be in a stable position.

The comments from some eyewitnesses suggest the plane started to break up as it came in to land in what they described as clear weather.

"It exploded on landing and totally disintegrated," one security official told the AFP news agency.

The plane's tailfin bearing the airline's colourful insignia was the only sizeable piece of wreckage to be seen.  

The Libyan Transport Minister Mohammed Ali Zidan has ruled out terrorism.

The majority of the fatalities were Dutch and the Dutch crash investigation team has joined the French and Libyan investigators in the search for clues.