A Burkina Faso search team has located the wreckage of the Air Algerie plane that crashed early Thursday, according to a report by France 24.
“We think it was the weather — there were lots of storms, lots of lightning,” Gilbert Diendere, chief of Burkina Faso’s general staff told the New York Times.
The Air Algerie airliner en route to Algiers took off from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso at 1:17 a.m. Weather conditions worsened as the jet was crossing Mali. At 1:47 a.m., the crew last made contact with the control tower in Niger, telling ground control that the aircraft had encountered a storm. The plane later changed its flight path.
The nationalities of the 116 people on board of AH5017 have been released. According to the BBC, all six crew members were from Spain and 51 passengers were French nationals. There were also travellers from Burkina Faso, Lebanon, Algeria, Canada, Germany, Egypt, Ukraine, Switzerland, Nigeria and Mali.
France has dispatched two Mirage warplanes to search for the wreckage. French authorities confirmed that rescuers have found the plane wreck in Gossi, a town where Islamic militants have a heavy presence.However, Gossi is a town where Islamic militants have a heavy presence. However, authorities said it was unlikely that insurgents shot down the plane.
Authorities believed that there were no survivors in the crash.
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