Missing Air Algerie
flight AH5017 has crashed, an Algerian aviation official has confirmed.
Meanwhile the
French foreign minister said that the plane may have come down in northern
Mali.
Issa Saly Maiga,
head of Mali’s National Civil Aviation Agency, said that a search was under way
for the missing flight.
He said: ‘We do
not know if the plane is Malian territory. Aviation authorities are
mobilised in all the countries concerned – Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Algeria
and even Spain.’
Contact with the
plane was lost shortly after it changed course due to bad weather.
Flight AH 5017 has
110 passengers and six crew – including 50 French citizens – on board and was
travelling from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers.
God av mercy..
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