Algeria this time. About 100 ppl onboard.
No other details yet.
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Damn you, Putin!
There is also a Taiwanese aircraft that went down with at least 48 people dead.
Oh God...
Maybe some of those Libyan surface to air missiles that were stolen from Libya blew it out of the sky?
It was on a north bound flight across west Africa and dropped off radar right before entering Algeria (It's destination).
No further details yet.
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So the missing African flight I presume will appear over Ukraine in 2 months and Putin will shoot it down
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This airline has been hijacked a number of times in the past. The MD83 has a pretty good safety record. Guess we have to wait for the details to come out.
Originating airport was Burkina Faso(sp), destination Ageres(sp).
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French fighters have joined the search...
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CONFIRMED! - the aircraft has crashed! near Malli(sp)
up till then, from 5 min ago...
Air Algerie plane missing: Contact lost with jet carrying 110 passengers over Africa
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-2...issing/5622514
Authorities have lost contact with an Air Algerie flight en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board, Algeria's APS state news agency and a Spanish airline company say.
APS said authorities lost contact with flight AH5017 an hour after it took off from Burkina Faso, although other officials gave other timings, adding to confusion about the fate of the flight and where it might be.
Spanish private airline company Swiftair confirmed it had no contact with its MD-83 aircraft operated by Air Algerie, which it said was carrying 110 passengers and six crew.
In a notice posted on its website, the company said the aircraft took off from Burkina Faso at 1:17am GMT (11:17am AEST) and was supposed to land in Algiers at 5:10am (3:10pm AEST) but never reached its destination.
According to an Algerian aviation official, authorities last had contact with the plane at 1:55am GMT (11:55am AEST), when it was flying over Gao, Mali.
Aviation authorities in Burkina say they handed the flight to the control tower in Niamey, Niger, at 1:38am GMT (11:38 AEST).
Burkina Faso's transport minister said the flight asked to change route at that time because of a storm.
The Burkinabe aviation authorities said last contact with the flight was just after 3:30am GMT (1:30pm AEST).
A crisis unit has been set up in Ouagadougou airport to provide information to families of people on the flight.
A diplomat in the Malian capital Bamako said that the north of the country – which lies on the plane's likely flight path – was struck by a powerful sandstorm overnight.
Issa Saly Maiga, head of Mali's National Civil Aviation Agency, said that a search was under way for the missing flight.
"We do not know if the plane is Malian territory," he told Reuters.
"Aviation authorities are mobilised in all the countries concerned – Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Algeria and even Spain."
An Air Algerie representative in Burkina Faso said 50 French nationals were on the passenger list.
Reuters
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Last edited by tangent4ronpaul; 07-24-2014 at 06:58 AM.
According to a Dutch news website (through Reuters); the plane disappeared shortly after asking for a course change to avoid a severe storm. Apparently it has crashed somewhere between 'Gao' and 'Tessalit'.
Air Algerie plane carrying 116 disappears from radar
An Air Algerie flight en route to Algiers from Burkina Faso with 116 people aboard -- including 50 French citizens -- disappeared from radar early Thursday over the Sahara during bad weather.
Air navigation services lost track of AH0517 about 50 minutes after takeoff at 0155 GMT, the Algerian news agency APS reports.
"In keeping with procedures, Air Algerie has launched its emergency plan," the APS agency quoted the airline as saying.
The pilot reportedly contacted air traffic control in Niamey, Niger, to change course because of a storm, the BBC reports.
The French news agency AFP quotes an unidentified source with the airlines as saying the plane was "not far from the Algerian frontier when the crew was asked to make a detour because of poor visibility and to prevent the risk of collision with another aircraft on the Algiers-Bamako route."
United Nations troops in Mali say they understand the plane came down between Gao and Tessalit, the BBC's Alex Duval Smith in the Malian capital Bamako reports.
The French military says it is sending two fighter jets based in the region to try to locate the missing plane, according to Reuters.
Swiftair, the owner of missing plane operated by Air Algerie, Algeria's national airline says 110 passengers and 6 crew were aboard. The aircraft is an MD-83, according to Reuters.
The airline confirmed on Twitter that 50 of the passengers are French citizens. French Transport Minister Frédéric Cuvillier says 'likely many' French passengers were aboard the missing flight, France 24 TV reports. The six person crew -- including the two pilots -- are Spanish, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reports.
Flight AH 5017 flies the Ouagadougou-Algiers route four times a week, AFP reported. It was supposed to land in the Algerian capital at 0510 local time, according to the Algerian newspaper The Daily Star.
Ougadougou, the capital of the west African nation of Burkina Faso, is in a nearly straight line south of Algiers, passing over Mali where unrest continues in the north.
However, a senior French official said it was unlikely that fighters in Mali had weaponry that could shoot down a plane, the Associated Press reports. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak for attribution, said the fights have shoulder-fired weapons which could not hit an aircraft at cruising altitude.
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/20...adar/13084479/
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Just a heads up for anyone doing web searches... Channel 11 is following this. Their motto is "11 Alive", that is NOT a news item!
Driving time between the cities listed in 5 hours. Helo - faster, but it wouldn't have crashed in the exact middle most likely. Probably going to be an hour before ppl are on site and reporting...
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Last edited by FindLiberty; 07-24-2014 at 06:04 PM.
Another flight with 17 in the flight number. And it took off at the 17 minute mark of the hour.
Nothing to see here. Move along folks.
Reminds me of the spate of train derailments that led to surveillance cameras installed inside trains. What will the solution be for the aviation industry?
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To not fly through seriously awful weather and to avoid flying over disputed areas of the country where both sides seem fully capable of stupidly shooting down your plane then pointing the finger at someone else?
FYI - there were more than three plane incidents this week. The others just were smaller planes so no one cared.
Genuine, willful, aggressive ignorance is the one sure way to tick me off. I wish I could say you were trolling. I know better, and it's just sad.
Now if it were yet another Malaysian flight that would have really fueled us theorists. One just completely disappears (MH370—Kuala Lumpur to Beijing), a few months later one is shot down (MH17—Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur). ...Yuppers, just move along now, y'all!
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No need to panic ... We will see it again, sometime in the next months .
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