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Air Algerie Airliner Down In Northern Africa

One Hundred Sixteen People Were On Board The MD-83

An Algerian aviation official has confirmed that Air Algerie Flight AH5017 went down Thursday in northern Africa with 116 people on board.

The CBC reports that contact with the plane was lost about 50 minutes after takeoff over northern Mali in a heavy rainstorm.

Online flight tracker FlightRadar confirmed that the plane went down, but the exact location is not clear. On Twitter, the service said first that it was down in Niger, but later said it could also be in northern Mali "Between Gao and Tessalit."

Reuters reports that about half the passengers on board the plane were French, and France had dispatched two fighter jets to search for the wreckage.

The plane was owned by Swiftair, a private Spanish company. There was reportedly a major sandstorm on the plane's route of flight. Issa Saly Maiga, head of Mali's National Civil Aviation Agency, said that it was not known if the plane was in Malian territory.

FMI: http://www.anac-mali.org/ (no English version available)

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