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Algerian plane with 119 on board missing
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IANS | 25 Jul, 2014
An aircraft belonging to Algeria's national airline, Air Algerie, with
119 people on board, disappeared early Thursday, 50 minutes after
takeoff from Ouagadougou Airport in Burkina Faso, media reported.
The
plane was reported missing over the Malian region of Gao, some 500 km
south of the Algerian border, Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal told
reporters on the sidelines of a parliament session.
An updated
statement from Air Algerie said there were 112 passengers and seven crew
members on the missing plane, Xinhua reported citing Algeria's
state-run APS news agency.
Air Algerie also confirmed that the missing aircraft was chartered from the Spanish Swiftair company.
"The
last radar contact with the plane occurred at 1.55 a.m. GMT while
flying over the area of Gao in Mali," Air Algerie said, adding that the
aircraft took off from Ouagadougou at 1:17 a.m. GMT and was scheduled to
arrive in Algiers at 5:11 a.m. GMT.
Algeria's neighbour Mali is
still grappling with sporadic rebel attacks in its northern area after a
military coup led to an armed rebellion that was crushed in 2013 by
French and African troops.
"In accordance with these developments, the company launches the emergency response plan," Air Algerie said.
TSA,
a local news website, said two emergency units have been set up by the
airline, one in Algiers and the other one in Ouagadougou.
This
incident comes a week after a Boeing 777 Malaysia Airlines passenger
plane crashed over eastern Ukraine en route from Amsterdam to Kuala
Lumpur, killing all 298 people on board.
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