Plane crash survivor boy smiling
The nine-year-old sole survivor of the Libyan plane crash has been able to smile at relatives in his hospital room.
Doctors said Dutch boy Ruben van Assouw was out of danger after surgery on his shattered legs.
His aunt and uncle arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli to see him and the hospital said he immediately recognised them and smiled when they went into his room.
Ruben was pulled from the debris of the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus that crashed minutes before landing in Tripoli killing 103 others on board.
About half of the crash victims were Dutch tourists who had been on holiday in South Africa. Two Britons and an Irish citizen were among the victims.
Rescuers were still unable to explain his survival. There have been at least five cases this decade of a single survivor in a commercial plane crash. Last summer, a young girl was found clinging to wreckage 13 hours after a plane went down in the water off the Comoros Islands.
"The idea of a lone survivor might seem a fluke, but it has happened several times," said Patrick Smith, an American airline pilot and aviation author.
In a field near the Tripoli Airport runway, little was left of the Afriqiyah Airbus.
Libya's transport minister, Mohammed Zaidan, said the plane's two black boxes had been found and turned over to analysts. He said the cause of the crash was under investigation, but authorities have ruled out a terrorist attack.