{"id":261185,"date":"2016-10-24T11:14:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T11:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=261185"},"modified":"2016-10-24T11:14:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T11:14:29","slug":"five-die-in-malta-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/five-die-in-malta-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Five die in Malta plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
Five people have died after their plane crashed at Malta International Airport.<\/p>\n
The small aircraft, a twin-prop Metroliner, crashed around 07:30 (05:30 GMT), shortly after taking off from Luqa airport on a flight to Libya.<\/p>\n
The victims’ nationalities have not been released.<\/p>\n
Early reports that they were officials from the EU’s border agency have been denied. Frontex<\/a> said the plane was “not deployed by” them and said “none of their staff were involved”.<\/p>\n Malta International Airport officials released a statement confirming the deaths<\/a>. The airport is closed “until further notice”.<\/p>\n