The World - News from July 30, 1989
The flight recorders of the Korean Air DC-10 that crashed at Libya’s Tripoli airport Thursday, killing 78 people, have been found, but it will take time to analyze them, a Libyan official said. Seven Libyans on the ground were among those killed when the plane with 197 people aboard plowed through houses and orchards in thick, early morning mist. Mustafa Maghrebi, head of a Libyan commission of inquiry, said that neither Libya nor a visiting team of Korean Air experts has the means to interpret the data and voice recordings. There has been no report that any malfunction might have caused the second DC-10 disaster in nine days.
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