A Libyan Airbus plane crashed early on Wednesday on landing at Tripoli airport, killing 103 people on board, most of them Dutch, while a ten-year-old boy was the sole survivor, officials said.

Until now 96 bodies of victims of different nationalities have been found in the air crash in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, the state-run Jana news agency reported.

A ten-year-old Dutch boy survived the crash, and he is now under treatment and in good condition in a Libyan hospital, Libya' s Transport Minister Mohammed Ali Zidan was quoted by Jana as telling a press conference.

The Doha-based al-Jazeera news channel aired a footage showing the sole survivor receiving medical treatment at a Tripoli hospital with his face covered by an oxygen mask. A doctor at the hospital was quoted by the network as saying that the child is suffering several bone fractures in his legs but he is in a stable condition.

An Airbus A330 plane of Libya's Afriqiyah Airways, flying from Johannesburg to Tripoli and carrying 104 people including 11 crew members on board, crashed during the process of landing at about 6: 00 a.m. (0400 GMT), according to airport authorities.

The minister said that while the nationalities of the victims of the Flight 8U771 reportedly bound for London's Gatwick airport had yet to be assessed, "I can say that there are Libyans, Africans and Europeans." Yet, al-Jazeera said the passengers list included 62 Dutch nationals and citizens from Finland, South Africa, Germany, Britain, France and Zimbabwe, as well as two Libyan nationals.

The minister added that the ministry will form a special committee to investigate the cause of the crash, the report added. According to the Doha-based network, the Libyan authorities demanded three France-based experts from Airbus and four French investigators to travel to the country and help in a probe into the crash. The two black boxes of the plane have already been recovered.

The cause of the crash was not clear yet, the airport authorities said, adding that the weather conditions were good in Tripoli on Wednesday morning.

Local online newspaper Quryna quoted what it described as reliable sources as saying that the pilot had contacted the control tower to ask for emergency services shortly before the crash due to a malfunction at the plane, a claim denied by Afriqiyah official Mohamed al-Mesheikhi.

The paper also quoted sources at the airport as saying that the air control asked the pilot not to land due to visibility difficulties. However, there was no official response to that report.

Meanwhile, the Chinese embassy in Tripoli confirmed that there were no Chinese passengers on board the crashed plane in Libya.

Ma Shaoyi, a senior official in the Chinese embassy in Tripoli, told Xinhua that no Chinese citizen was on board the crashed plane this morning.

Dutch tourist organization ANWB said that there were 62 Dutch aboard the crashed Airbus in Libya, among whom 61 were killed.

The Libyan airline offered to give families of the victims free flights to Libya. "Afriqiyah Airways will offer transportation, assistance and accommodation to those concerned," it said in a statement.

"The Libyan immigration authorities will grant the visa upon arrival," it added.

Meanwhile, Airbus said in a statement that it regrets to confirm that an Airbus A-330/320 operated by Afriqiyah Airways was involved in the accident.

The ill-fated plane was delivered from the production line in September 2009, a statement by the planemaker said. "The aircraft had accumulated approximately 1,600 flight hours in some 420 flights."

The Libyan airline was founded in April 2001 and runs a fleet of Airbus planes.

Wednesday's crash was the deadliest in Libya since a Libyan Arab Airlines plane crashed on Dec. 22, 1992, near Tripoli airport, causing a death toll of 157.