SportFreak
24-07-14, 13:26
ALGIERS – It is being reported that an Air Algerie plane with 100 passengers and six crew members on board has crashed in Niamey, Niger.
Reports indicate that Spanish airline, Swiftair, was operating the missing MD83 flight for Air Algerie.
Air Algerie had lost contact with the aircraft nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso.
The airline says air navigation services were unable to trace the plane which was flying from Ouagadougou Burkina Faso to Algiers.
The news comes exactly a week after Malaysian airlines flight MH317 was shot down over eastern Ukraine.
Yesterday, 48 people were killed when a Transasia Airways plane crash landed while attempting to land in Taiwan.
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Reports indicate that Spanish airline, Swiftair, was operating the missing MD83 flight for Air Algerie.
Air Algerie had lost contact with the aircraft nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso.
The airline says air navigation services were unable to trace the plane which was flying from Ouagadougou Burkina Faso to Algiers.
The news comes exactly a week after Malaysian airlines flight MH317 was shot down over eastern Ukraine.
Yesterday, 48 people were killed when a Transasia Airways plane crash landed while attempting to land in Taiwan.
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