Afriqiyah Airways Crash Investigators now Focus on pilots

New evidence suggests that the pilots of the Afriqiyah Airways A330-200 that crashed last week on approach to Tripoli International may have mistaken a major road that runs toward and then veers to the right of the airport for the runway. The aircraft crashed 900 m. short of the threshold of Runway 09 and 200 m. to the right, just beside the road. ATWOnline reported last week that Runway 09 does not have an ILS and the VOR navigational aid was suffering from interference (ATWOnline, May 14). The pilots also may have had their vision impaired by a combination of the rising sun and ground haze.

(Geoffrey Thomas - ATWOnline News)