An Air Algerie flight crashed en route from Burkina Faso to Algeria with 110 passengers on board on Thursday.
“I can confirm that it has crashed,” an Algerian official told Reuters, without giving any details about what had happened to the aircraft.
Air Algerie flight AH 5017, an MD-83 aircraft, was carrying 110 passengers and six crew members. Fifty-one of the passengers were reportedly French nationals, according to the Telegraph. The aircraft was “wet leased” by Air Algerie from a Spanish airline company Swiftair, which supplied both aircraft and crew.
According to Reuters, the aircraft took off from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso at 0117 GMT and was supposed to land in Algiers at 0510 GMT. At 0138 GMT the flight was asked to change route because of a storm. The last contact Algerian authorities had with the missing flight was at 0155 GMT when it was flying over Gao, Mali. Niger air traffic controllers reportedly said their last contact with the flight was just after 0330 GMT, suggesting it may have entered Niger air space.
Mali is currently considered a high-risk flight zone by US airlines due to its ongoing insurgency.
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