A commercial jetliner carrying 116
people disappeared over west Africa after losing contact with air
traffic controllers early Thursday, a Spanish charter company said. Air
Algerie Flight AH5017 vanished from radar about 50 minutes after it took
off from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, according to the Algerian Press
Service. The jet took off at 1:17 a.m. local time (9:17 p.m. ET on
Wednesday) bound for Algiers, Algeria.
In a statement,
Madrid-based Swiftair confirmed it had chartered the McDonnell Douglas
MD-83. Swiftair said 100 passengers and six crew were aboard the jet. It
had been due to land in the Algerian capital at 5:10 a.m. local time
(12:10 a.m. ET).
The incident comes in the wake of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 shootdown over Ukraine last Thursday. A TransAsia flight also crash-landed on a Taiwanese island on Wednesday, killing 48 people.
Scary news everyday :(........now I can't fly so scared of plan uuuh
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