Libyan Oil Crash: Twenty-One Die in Charter Tragedy
A routine flight turned deadly over the Mediterranean's blue expanse. The Short 360 aircraft, packed with oil workers, never reached its destination. Sirte Oil Company employees—mostly Libyans returning from offshore platforms—vanished into the sea's cold embrace. Rough waters and mechanical failure combined in a brutal moment of industrial tragedy. No survivors emerged from the wreckage scattered across the waves. Twenty-one lives erased in an instant, their final journey a silent descent into the deep.
January 13, 2000
26 years ago
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