Algeria airliner missing on Sahara route from Burkina Faso

by Guest Thu Jul 24, 2014 1:38 pm

Algeria's national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso to Algiers across the Sahara.
Contact was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou, it said. The plane was last seen at 0155 GMT.
Flight AH 5017 had 110 passengers and six crew on board, Spanish airline Swiftair, which owns the plane, said.
The pilot had contacted Niger's control tower in Niamey to change course because of a storm, correspondents say.
Algerian and French nationals are thought to be on board.
"In keeping with procedures, Air Algerie has launched its emergency plan," Air Algerie officials, quoted by APS news agency (in French), said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28460625

by Guest Thu Jul 24, 2014 2:04 pm

Awful isn't it Didge Sad

Live updates on Sky News are now saying it crashed but they don't know what caused it to go down.

by gerber Thu Jul 24, 2014 2:49 pm

A very severe sand storm has been mentioned on France 24

Two French fighters sent to look.

by eddie Thu Jul 24, 2014 3:11 pm

Another plane????
Coincidence???

by gerber Thu Jul 24, 2014 3:14 pm

Let's hope not.

But it did disappear in a very volatile part of Africa though it is doubted the fighting factions would have the capability to shoot it down.

by Original Quill Thu Jul 24, 2014 4:58 pm

Lost in the Mali desert, Good Morning America says.

by Guest Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:57 pm

Latest from Sky News:

The wreckage of a passenger jet which vanished from radar in West Africa has been spotted in northern Mali's desert, the country's president has said.

President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said: "I have just been informed that the wreckage has been found between Aguelhoc and Kidal."

Two French fighter jets have been searching for the Air Algerie plane, which was carrying 110 passengers and six crew.

France's foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, had said the aircraft had "probably crashed", but later insisted no theories had been excluded in the hunt for the plane.

"We cannot, we must not exclude any hypothesis before having all elements (at our disposal)," he said on French television

http://news.sky.com/story/1306685/passenger-plane-wreckage-spotted-in-desert

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