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Air Terrorism Returns As Algeria Flight AH5017 Crashes Killing 116 Souls
Swiftair MD-83 vanished 50 minutes after take-off from capital of Burkina Faso
An Air Algerie flight that went missing en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers with 116 people on board including 50 French nationals has crashed, an Algerian aviation official said today.
Crash comes after 298 killed in MH17 disaster and 48 die in plane crash in Taiwan
Air navigation services lost track of the Swiftair MD-83 around 50 minutes into the flight after the crew reportedly asked to change course due to a storm. The plane, which is operated by Air Algerie, was last picked up on radar at 1.55am GMT and should have landed in the Algerian capital around three hours later.
‘I can confirm that it has crashed,’ the official said, declining to give details of where the plane was or what caused the accident, although it very likely went down in the Sahara desert.
It comes after a treacherous week for the aviation industry in which 298 people were killed when Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane was shot down over Ukraine and 48 people died in a crash in Taiwan.
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