A LIBYAN plane carrying 104 people crashed yesterday on approach to Tripoli’s airport, leaving a field scattered with smouldering debris that included a large chunk of the tail painted with the airline’s brightly coloured logo. A 10-year-old Dutch boy was the only known survivor.

The aviation industry today condemned European transport officials, claiming there has been “no co-ordination and no leadership” in the crisis that has shut down most European airports for a fifth day.

Air France and other airlines today moved to replace speed monitors suspected of feeding false information to the computers of Flight 447 and leading to a series of failures that broke the plane apart over the Atlantic Ocean.