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This plane crash takes us to the African country of Libya, which is located next to the following countries: Tunisia, Algeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan and Egypt.
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Pictured above is the accident plane, photographed on the 17th of November 2009.
Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 was a scheduled international Afriqiyah Airways passenger flight from Johannesburg, South Africa to Tripoli, Libya. On the 12th of May 2010 at about 06:01am (04:01am UTC) while on approach to Tripoli International Airport (IATA: TIP, ICAO: HLLT), the aircraft operating the flight, an Airbus A330-200, crashed about 1,200 metres (3,900 ft; 1,300 yd) short of the runway. Of the 104 passengers and crew on board, 103 were killed. The sole survivor was a 9-year-old Dutch boy.
The crash of Flight 771 was the deadliest aviation disaster in Libya since the crash of Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103 (Crashed due to a mid-air collision) in 1992. This was also the third hull-loss of an Airbus A330 involving fatalities, occurring eleven months after the crash of Air France Flight 447 (Crashed due to a stall caused by pilot error). The crash was also the first fatal accident in the operational history of Afriqiyah Airways.
The investigation, led by the Libyan Civil Aviation Authority, concluded that the crash was caused by pilot error. Following a series of misunderstandings between the pilots, the flight failed to stabilise its approach, causing the already fatigued crew to execute a missed approach. While initiating the go-around, they suffered somatogravic illusion. They then applied nose-down input at low altitude and caused the aircraft to slam onto terrain.
The aircraft involved was an Airbus A330-202 registered as 5A-ONG (5 Alpha- Oscar November Golf) with serial number 1024, fitted with two General Electric CF6-80E1A4 engines. It entered service with Afriqiyah Airways on the 15th of September 2009. At the time of the accident, it had logged approximately 2,175 hours total flying time in 572 take-off and landing cycles. It was configured for a capacity of 230 passengers and 13 crew, including 30 business class seats and 200 economy class seats.
The flight crew consisted of:
- The captain was 57-year-old Yousef al-Saadi (Arabic: يوسف الساعدي) (pilot not flying, PNF). He was hired by Afriqiyah Airways in 2007 and had logged 17,016 flight hours, 516 of which were logged on the Airbus A330.
- The first officer was 42-year-old Tareq Abu-Shawashi (Arabic: طارق أبو الشواشي) (pilot flying, PF). He had 4,216 flight hours, including 516 hours logged on the Airbus A330.
- The relief first officer was 37-year-old Nazem al-Tarhuni (Arabic: ناظم الترهوني) (PNF). He had 1,866 flight hours, 516 of which were logged on the Airbus A330.
All three crew members had logged 516 hours on the Airbus A330.
Flight 771 was an international long-haul flight that originated at O. R. Tambo International Airport (IATA: JNB, ICAO: FAOR) in South Africa's largest city of Johannesburg to Tripoli International Airport in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. There were 93 passengers and 11 crew members on board. Most of the passengers were Dutch citizens returning from holiday in South Africa. After arriving in Libya, the majority of the passengers would have boarded two other aircraft, one of which was bound to Düsseldorf and the other to Brussels. On this flight, al-Saadi was the monitoring pilot, while Abu-Shawashi was in charge of the aircraft controls.
