Plane with 116 aboard goes missing
Published on: Friday, July 25, 2014
ALGIERS: An Air Algerie flight carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso to Algeria's capital disappeared from radar early Thursday over northern Mali, officials said. France's Foreign Minister said no wreckage had been found, but that the plane "probably crashed." Air navigation services lost track of the MD-83 about 50 minutes after takeoff from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, the official Algerian ADVERTISEMENT The plane was travelling from Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, to Algiers, the Algerian capital. More than 50 French were onboard along with 27 Burkina Faso nationals and passengers from a dozen other countries. The flight crew was Spanish.Fliers around the globe have been on edge ever since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared in March on its way to Beijing. Searchers have yet to find a single piece of wreckage from the jet with 239 people on board.ADVERTISEMENT Last week, a Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down by a surface-to-air missile while flying over a war-torn section of Ukraine. The back-to-back disasters involving Boeing 777s flown by the same airline were too much of a coincidence for many fliers.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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