No evidence of terrorism or technical failure has been uncovered by the commission looking into the cause of the Libyan plane crash that killed 103 people on 12 May 2010.

Navigational aids at Tripoli Airport, Libya, were working as normal, the plane did not run out of fuel and there was no explosion or fire, according to Libyan news agency JANA.

No mayday call or request to land at an alternative airport was made by the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200, according to the investigators.

The cockpit voice recorders, or black boxes, recovered in the aftermath of the crash have been sent to Paris, France, for examination.

Libyan officials are carrying out the ongoing investigation in collaboration with experts from the US, France, South Africa and the Netherlands.

The aircraft crashed into the desert less than a mile from Tripoli Airport’s runway en route from Johannesburg, South Africa, to Gatwick Airport, UK.

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The majority of the casualties onboard were from the Netherlands, with the only survivor a being a nine-year-old Dutch boy.