What is the world coming to.
http://www.9news.com.au/World/2014/07/24/19/42/Air-Algerie-l…
Algerian officials have confirmed Air Algerie flight AH5017 has crashed, with at least 110 passengers on board.
Earlier, the airline reported it had lost contact with one of its passenger aircraft nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso bound for Algiers.
Aviation sources told AFP the aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 leased from Spanish company Swiftair carrying passengers of different nationalities.
Its six-member crew were all Spanish, said Spain's airline pilots' union Sepla.
France has sent two Mirage 2000 jets to look for the plane.
Many French nationals were thought to be on board the plane, France's Transport Minister Frederic Cuvillier said in Paris.
He said after a government meeting that top civil aviation officials were holding an emergency meeting and a crisis cell had been set up.
"The plane disappeared at Gao (in Mali), 500 kilometres (300 miles) from the Algerian border. Several nationalities are among the victims," Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal was cited as saying by Algerian radio.
An Air Algerie source earlier said contact was lost while the airliner was still in Malian airspace and approaching the border with Algeria.
Despite international military intervention still under way, the situation remains unstable in northern Mali, which was seized by jihadist groups for several months in 2012.
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