A passenger plane carrying 116 people is feared to have crashed on a flight from Burkina Faso to the Algerian capital Algiers. Contact with the Air Algerie flight was lost over the Sahara as it crossed Mali in bad weather, officials said. French
Air navigation services lost track of Air Algerie Swiftair MD-83 about 50 minutes after takeoff from Ougadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.
ALGIERS (Reuters) – An Air Algerie flight crashed today en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board, an Algerian avia.
Algeria-bound plane from Burkina Faso missing. July 24, 2014 by bbc 7 Comments. 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
The passenger list of the missing flight includes 50 French citizens, says airline representative in Burkina Faso.