Algeria loses contact with Air Algerie aircraft

[Devil Soul]

Algeria loses contact with Air Algerie aircraft
By Reuters

There were no details on the the number of passengers aboard flight AH 5017. — Photo courtesy: Wikimedia commons
ALGIERS: Algerian aviation authorities have lost contact with an Air Algerie aircraft en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers, about 50 minutes after take-off, the APS state news agency reported on Thursday.

APS gave no details on the the number of passengers aboard flight AH 5017.

Algeria 'loses contact with plane' from Burkina Faso

Algeria's national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso.

Contact was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou, the airline is quoted by Algeria's state news agency as saying.

The passenger airline was bound for Algiers, it added.

It is unclear how many passengers were aboard flight AH 5017, Reuters news agency reports.
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Oh GOD whats going on 3rd such incident in 2-3 weeks

 

[TheNoob]

What the f*ck!

 

[SURYA-1]

116 passengers are onboard.

 

[halupridol]

wth,,,,is happening??

 

[shashikant]

another plane accident . air traveling is becoming dangerous .

 

[Pakistanisage]

An Air Algerie jet carrying more than 100 people has disappeared from radar during a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers, the official Algerian news agency said Thursday.Air navigation services lost track of the plane 50 minutes after takeoff early Thursday, last sited at 2 a.m. local time, the agency said. Swiftair, the Spanish private airline company that owns the plane, said there were 110 passengers and six crew members on board the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 jet at the time.

"In keeping with procedures, Air Algerie has launched its emergency plan," the Algerian Press Service quoted Air Algerie as saying.



The flight path of Flight AH5017 from Ouagadougou, the capital of the west African nation of Burkina Faso, to Algiers was not immediately clear. The flight typically takes around four hours.



Ougadougou is in a nearly straight line south of Algiers, passing over Mali where unrest continues in the north.

 

[khujliwal]

Air Algerie loses contact with plane over Africa

ALGIERS: Air Algerie said it lost contact with one of its passenger aircraft nearly an hour after take-off from Burkina Faso on Thursday bound for Algiers.

A company source told AFP that the missing aircraft was a DC-9 and that some 110 passengers of various nationalities and six crew members are listed as being on board the flight.

The source said contact with the flight was lost while it was still in Malian airspace approaching the border with Algeria.

"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," the source said.

"Contact was lost after the change of course." The airline announced that the plane had gone missing in a brief statement carried by national news agency APS.

"Air navigation services have lost contact with an Air Algerie plane on Thursday flying from Ouagadougou to Algiers, 50 minutes after take-off," the statement said.

It added that the company initiated an "emergency plan" in the search for flight AH5017, which flies the four-hour passenger route four times a week.

One of Algeria's worst air disasters occurred in February this year, when a C-130 military aircraft carrying 78 people crashed in the mountainous northeast, killing more than 70 people.

Tamanrasset in the deep south was the site of the country's worst ever civilian air disaster, in March 2003.

In that accident, all but one of 103 people on board were killed when an Air Algerie passenger plane crashed on take-off after one of its engines caught fire.

The sole survivor, a young Algerian soldier, was critically injured.

Air Algerie loses contact with plane over Africa - The Times of India

 

[Mr.S.Singh]

MD-83 looks like 3 decades old !

 

[Counter-Errorist]

MH370, MH17, TransAsia and now this.

@OrionHunter - let's go fishing, dude. I'll teach you how to catch tadpoles.

 

[Avik274]

again!!

 

[Parul]

This has been bad year for aviation Industry!

 

[Ahiska]

Its confirmed to have crashed down

 

[OrionHunter]

MH370, MH17, TransAsia and now this.

@OrionHunter - let's go fishing, dude. I'll teach you how to catch tadpoles.

Tadpoles? Yuk! And I've stopped fishing in troubled waters!!

 

[imiakhtar]

MD-83 looks like 3 decades old !

So what.

Spanair operates under a Spanish op certificate. They wouldn't be granted one if their aircraft weren't up to standards.

The area in question.

 

[gau8av]

so first it was an airbus a320, then a B737-600, then an md 83, dc9/b717... any confirmation on aircraft type ?

very sad, hope there are survivors