News Alert: Air Algerie plane with 116 on board falls off radar

An Air Algerie flight with 116 people on board has dropped off radar, prompting a search for the missing plane, the airline’s operator said Thursday.

Flight 5017 lost radar contact 50 minutes after takeoff from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, early Thursday. It was supposed to arrive at Algiers’ Houari Boumediene Airport about four hours later.

The plane, an MD-83, was carrying 110 passengers, two pilots and four crew members. The MD-83 is part of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 family of...

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

CloudsFM

24 Jul

Just In: Ndege ya Algeria yenye watu 116 yapotea angani, haionekani kwenye radar

Ndege ya shirika la Air Algerie la Algeria iliyokuwa ikitoka nchini Burkina Faso kwenda Algiers imepotea kwenye radar mapema leo.

Mamlaka inayohusika na uchunguzi wa anga imesema imepoteza mawasiliano na ndege hiyo saa 0155 GMT, au dakika 50 baada ya kupaa. Hiyo ina maana kuwa ndege hiyo imepotea kwa saa kadhaa kabla ya habari hiyo kujulikana.

Ndege hiyo ilikuwa ikitoka Ouagadougou, mji mkuu wa Burkina Faso.

 

11 years ago

BBC

'No survivors' in Air Algerie crash

There are no survivors from the Air Algerie AH5017 passenger jet that crashed in Mali, says the French President, Francois Hollande.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Jul

Missing Algeria flight ‘crashes’ with 116 on board

An Air Algerie plane that went missing early Thursday with 116 people on board has crashed, reports Reuters. 51 French citizens and 26 from Burkina Faso were among the 116 passengers on the plane which dropped off the radar as it flew over northern Mali, according to an AFP report.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Air Algerie black box 'unusable'

The voice recorder from a black box of the Air Algerie flight that crashed in Mali last month is damaged and unintelligible, French investigators say.

 

11 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Air Algerie crash - in 15 seconds

Amateur video emerges of the site in Mali where the Air Algerie AH5017 passenger jet crashed. Here is the story in 15 seconds.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Second Air Algerie black box found

Search teams in Mali locate the second flight recorder on board Air Algerie flight AH5017, which crashed on Thursday killing 116 people.

 

11 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Air Algerie bodies to be brought to France

France's president has promised that the bodies of 118 people who died when an Air Algerie plane crashed in Mali will be brought to France.

 

11 years ago

BBCSwahili

25 Jul

Air Algerie AH5017: Abiria wote waliaga

Abiria wote na wahudumu wa ndege ya Air Algerie AH5017 waliangamia jangwani.

 

9 years ago

BBC

25 Nov

VIDEO: On board the Pope's plane to Africa

Prior to his arrival in Kenya for a three-nation African tour, Pope Francis was filmed on board the papal plane greeting reporters.

 

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