Libya’s state news agency said 96 bodies had been recovered after the plane crashed at Tripoli International airport. A Dutch tourism official said 61 of 62 Dutch travelers on the plane were killed, with one survivor believed to be a child.

About 100 people are believed to have died in the crash, the president of the European Parliament has said.

The Afriqiyah Airways plane was flying in from Johannesburg, South Africa, when it crashed while attempting to land at the airport in the Libyan capital, an airline spokeswoman said.

Jerzy Buzek, the president of the European Parliament said: “Some 100 people have died no doubt from many countries around the world; this is a tragedy.

“I have also been informed that one 8-year-old child has survived, which given this tragic event, is truly a miracle.”

The plane, an Airbus A330-200, was carrying 93 passengers and 11 crew members. It was at the tail end of its nearly 9-hour-long flight when it crashed.

At the crash site, workers with surgical masks combed through the smoldering wreckage that spilled over a large area. A wheel lay atop a pile of bags. Two green airline seats sat upright and intact amid burned parts of the aircraft.

Officials recovered the plane’s flight data recorder, which investigators use to piece together a flight’s last minutes.

The Airbus that crashed is one of three Airbus 330-200s that the airline owns.

(Source: CNN)