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Contact lost with Air Algerie plane

sidcup-red
sidcup-red Posts: 195
edited July 2014 in Not Sports Related
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/24/world/africa/air-algerie-flight/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_topstories+(RSS:+Top+Stories)

Doesn't sound good, hopefully there will be a peaceful conclusion this time.

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  • RugbyAddick
    RugbyAddick Posts: 2,079
    So it's did to land at 12:10. I'm sure we ekll find out more then.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    A lot of people seem to think it has not reached it's destination.... it's not due to land for 2 more minutes jeez.
  • Nug
    Nug Posts: 4,623
    Yep twitter saying had to divert due to poor visibility and to avoid another aircraft
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,102
    According to BBC website it was due to land at 5.10am our time, not 12.10pm
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    Air Algeria said on 24 July that it had lost contact with flight AH5017 around an hour after it left the capital Ouagadougou for the Algerian capital Algiers. The flight had been scheduled to depart at 00.45 (Burkina Faso time) and was scheduled to land at the capital's Houari Boumediene Airport (ALG) at 05.40 (Algeria time). The aircraft reportedly has approximately 110 passengers on board. Details are still emerging.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    There's hardly any difference in times between here and Algeria (And Burkina Faso), so it should have landed a while ago.

    Anybody who's flown in Africa will know that its not automatically thought of as a terrorist act - the quality of planes and maintenance is typically shocking.
  • LuckyReds
    LuckyReds Posts: 5,866
    edited July 2014

    Hopefully things will be clarified soon and it just landed elsewhere.
  • LuckyReds
    LuckyReds Posts: 5,866
    edited July 2014
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  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    13.57 An Algerian aviation official has told Reuters the plane has crashed

    14.11 "I can confirm that it has crashed," the unnamed Algerian official who spoke to Reuters has said, declining to give details of where the plane was or what caused the accident.
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    List of nationalities that was on board
    51 French,
    27 Burkina Faso
    8 Lebanese
    6 Algerians
    5 Canadians
    4 Germans
    2 Luxemburg nationals
    1 Swiss
    1 Belgian
    1 Egyptian
    1 Ukrainian
    1 Nigerian
    1 Cameroonian
    1 Malian
    6 Spanish (Crew Members)
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  • LuckyReds
    LuckyReds Posts: 5,866
    The French Air Force claim to have located the wreckage.
    BREAKING: 2 French fighter jets located wreckage of Air Algerie flight in Mali, French defense ministry tells Fox News
    Looks like it could be the worst case scenario sadly. Utterly tragic if so.

    Thoughts are with the friends and families.
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Air travel is proving not to be the safest form of transport anymore. So sad.
    R.I.P to the lost.
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    RIP
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Absurdistan said:

    Air travel is proving not to be the safest form of transport anymore. So sad.
    R.I.P to the lost.

    Three recent tragedies but I'd wager it's still the safest.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    2 months ago it is entirely possible we wouldn't have really heard about this.

    I may be wrong.
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,568
    bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28475335

    Wreckage found. Sad day. RIP
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    WSS said:

    Absurdistan said:

    Air travel is proving not to be the safest form of transport anymore. So sad.
    R.I.P to the lost.

    Three recent tragedies but I'd wager it's still the safest.
    By huge orders of magnitude the safest.

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