Members of a Dutch family are on their way to Libya after being told that the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed 103 people could be their relative, The Times reported.
An van de Sande said that officials had told her family that the child being treated at al-Khadra hospital in Tripoli might be her grandson, Ruben van Assouw, 9.
Ms Van de Sande told said that the family had been told the boy had mentioned the name "Ruben".
The Dutch foreign ministry confirmed that two presumed family members of the injured child were on their way to Tripoli.
Ruben had been on safari in South Africa with his brother Enzo, 11, mother Trudy, 41, and father Patrick, 40, all of whom died in the crash, reports said.
Sixty-one Dutch citizens are believed to have been killed when Afriqiyah Airways Flight 770 from Johannesburg to Tripoli crashed on landing in clear weather at 6am. The Times understands that seven passengers had been due to fly on to London. Two of the dead were Britons and one was Irish.
Ms van de Sande said that she and other family members had waited for news at a Brussels airfield "and so I haven't yet seen the television footage" of the bruised boy in his hospital bed.
"Other family members have seen it, but it is difficult to be 100 per cent sure that it is indeed Ruben," she said. "We don't understand it. It's like we're in a movie."
When he was found in the wreckage the child, barely conscious, muttered "Holland. Holland".
The foreign ministry spokesman Francesco Mascini said that he could not confirm the boy's identity "until the two presumed family members have seen the child".
Mr Mascini said that the two family members had left on a specially arranged flight around 6:00am (0400 GMT) from Rotterdam, and would make their way to the hospital later in the morning.
"Until the presumed family members have seen the child, we cannot say anything about his identity with certainty," he said.
Libyan television footage showed an apparently conscious dark-haired boy in a hospital bed. He had a bandaged head, an oxygen mask and intravenous drips in his arm. A Libyan doctor, speaking in Arabic, said: "The boy has several breaks in both legs and is under intensive care but is stable."
Mohamed Rashid, a doctor at the hospital in Tripoli, said that the boy was doing well after surgery on his leg fractures. "The operation was successful and he is under our care," he said.
Mohamed Zidan, the Libyan Transport Minister said that the cause of the crash was unknown but the aircraft's two black box flight recorders had been recovered.
"We have definitely ruled out the theory that the crash was the result of an act of terrorism," he said.
Early indications suggested that the aircraft landed short of the runway and disintegrated on impact. An airport security official said: "It exploded on landing."
Bongani Sithole, an Afriqiyah Airways official in Johannesburg, said that the aircraft crashed "one metre away from the runway".
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