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hachiban08
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Posted: July 24 2014 at 3:36am |
http://abcnews.go.com/International/air-algerie-loses-contact-plane/story?id=24690533
I'm doing this over my phone so it's hard to type. It was lost over Northwestern Africa about 50 mins into the flight to the Algiers. Feels like a bad week for planes. :/ |
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Be prepared! It may be time....^_^v
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Air Algerie Flight AH5017 disappears from radar
July 24, 2014
An Air Algerie flight carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso to Algeria's capital disappeared from radar early Thursday, according to the the plane's owner. Air navigation services lost track of the Swiftair MD-83 roughly 50 minutes after takeoff from Ougadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, at 9:55 p.m. ET Wednesday, the official Algerian news agency said. That means that Flight 5017 had been missing for hours before the news was made public. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Swiftair, a private Spanish airline, said the plane carrying 110 passengers and six crewmembers – including two pilots and four cabin staff -- departed Burkina Faso for Algiers at 9:17 p.m. ET Wednesday, but had not arrived at the scheduled time of 1:10 a.m. ET Thursday. Swiftair said it was unable to make contact with the plane. "In keeping with procedures, Air Algerie has launched its emergency plan," the APS news agency quoted the airline as saying. Burkina Faso authorities also set up a crisis unit in Ouagadougou airport to update families of people on board the plane, Reuters reports. The flight path of the plane from Ouagadougou, the capital of the west African nation of Burkina Faso, to Algiers wasn't immediately clear. Ougadougou is in a nearly straight line south of Algiers, passing over Mali where unrest continues in the north. An Algerian aviation official told Reuters that the last contact authorities had with the missing plane was when it was flying over Gao, Mali. France's transport minister, Frederic Cuvillier, told The Associated Press that the plane vanished over northern Mali. The French army dispatched two fighter jets based in the region to search for the plane. But officials in Mali were less certain as to where the plane could be. "We do not know if the plane is [in] Malian territory," Issa Saly Maiga, head of Mali's National Civil Aviation Agency, told Reuters. "Aviation authorities are mobilized in all the countries concerned - Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Algeria and even Spain." A diplomat in Mali’s capital of Bamako said the northern part of the country was hit by a powerful sandstorm overnight, according to Reuters. Last week, an armed Islamist group formed by Al Qaeda commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar reportedly claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing this week that killed a French soldier in northern Mali. In a video posted on the Internet, a spokesman for the group Al-Mourabitoun, identifying himself as Abu Assem Al-Muhajir, said the attack north of Gao, was "a response to French claims that they had annihilated the Mujahideen (Islamic fighters)". Al-Mourabitoun was formed last year from the fusion of two Islamist groups operating in northern Mali: the Mulathameen brigade, led by the one-eyed Belmokhtar who is thought to have masterminded an attack on an Algerian gas plant last year in which nearly 40 hostages were killed, and the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA), Reuters reports. A senior French official told The Associated Press that it seems unlikely that these fighters had the kind of weaponry that could shoot down a plane. The official, not authorized to speak publicly, said on condition of anonymity that they primarily have shoulder-fired weapons -- not enough to hit a passenger plane flying at cruising altitude. |
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My first wive's father was an air traffic controller and he always said "plane crashes come in 3's"! I don't know why but they always seem to.
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hachiban08
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Thanks for the more detailed post, Jen. I had posted that after waking up around 3:20ish am after having an annoying Boardwalk Empire dream (just gave the show a 2nd chance yesterday), though I prefer Downton Abbey. Checked Facebook and nbcnews, gma, and abc news had it posted already so I decided to add it here. Hope you've been well :)
Feels like the rule of 3 applies a lot of various things, huh, Arirish? Like even celebrity deaths. :/ |
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Be prepared! It may be time....^_^v
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hachiban08
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Yahoo News posted a little under an hour ago on Facebook that the plane crashed. *still on phone, just woke up, but about to head back in for another hour or two*
http://news.yahoo.com/air-algerie-ah5017-plane-disappears-115228417.html |
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http://www.debka.com/newsupdatepopup/9132/ Al Qaeda shot it down ?
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