Algeria Airliner Feared Crashed On Flight From Burkina Faso To Algiers!

A passenger plane carrying 116 people is feared to have crashed on a flight from Burkina Faso to the Algerian capital Algiers. Contact with the Air Algerie flight was lost over the Sahara as it crossed Mali in bad weather, officials said.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the plane, which has 51 French citizens aboard, "probably crashed". French media reported that soldiers had found wreckage in Tilemsi, central Mali, but this was not confirmed.
Reuters quoted Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita as saying that wreckage had been found much further east, between Aguelhoc and Kidal.
Contact with Flight AH 5017, chartered from Spanish airline Swiftair, was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou, Air Algerie said.
The pilot had contacted Niger's control tower in Niamey to change course because of a sandstorm, officials say. Flight AH 5017 has 110 passengers and six crew – including 51 French citizens – on board and was travelling from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers.

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