Five people reported dead as plane carrying EU officials crashes in Malta
- 8 years ago
Police in Malta say five people have been killed after a light aircraft crashed just after take-off this morning.
According to initial local media reports the twin-propeller Metroliner plane was carrying officials from the EU’s border management agency Frontex and was reportedly heading for Misrata in Libya on an anti-human trafficking mission.
However a Frontex spokesman later told Reuters the plane had not been deployed by Frontex.
Eye-witnesses told The Times of Malta that they had seen the plane take off before tipping to its right side and then plummeting “straight down into the ground” and bursting into flames.
According to Miriam Dalli of the Times of Malta, there were no survivors of the crash.
Captured this moments after #Luqa plane crash;all shocked pre take off.sharing this via data pinkdixie22 rebeccagyeo BBCBreaking #Malta pic.twitter.com/PxpErWH8yX— Ed_De Gaetano (eddydeg) October 24, 2016
maltatoday on site where a plane crashed; victims believed to be five; no survivors. Related to EU mission pic.twitter.com/lKyzF8z9TA— Miriam Dalli (Miriam_Dalli) October 24, 2016
According to initial local media reports the twin-propeller Metroliner plane was carrying officials from the EU’s border management agency Frontex and was reportedly heading for Misrata in Libya on an anti-human trafficking mission.
However a Frontex spokesman later told Reuters the plane had not been deployed by Frontex.
Eye-witnesses told The Times of Malta that they had seen the plane take off before tipping to its right side and then plummeting “straight down into the ground” and bursting into flames.
According to Miriam Dalli of the Times of Malta, there were no survivors of the crash.
Captured this moments after #Luqa plane crash;all shocked pre take off.sharing this via data pinkdixie22 rebeccagyeo BBCBreaking #Malta pic.twitter.com/PxpErWH8yX— Ed_De Gaetano (eddydeg) October 24, 2016
maltatoday on site where a plane crashed; victims believed to be five; no survivors. Related to EU mission pic.twitter.com/lKyzF8z9TA— Miriam Dalli (Miriam_Dalli) October 24, 2016