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By: 24th July 2014 at 15:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Aircraft is reported as an MD-83 which took off from Burkina Faso enroute to Algiers.
By: 24th July 2014 at 15:37 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-http://www.dailysabah.com/africa/2014/07/24/air-algerie-loses-contact-with-plane-after-takeoff
News is not looking good. Plane presumably down in Mali or maybe Niger.
By: 24th July 2014 at 17:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-They say bad news travels in threes. Sadly looking like a third airliner down.
At least they can find her which is something.
By: 24th July 2014 at 17:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The wreckage has been found in a remote piece of dessert in Nothern Mali.
The plane was EC-LTV an MD83 of Swiftair
The nationality of the passengers
Sur les 116 personnes à bord :
20 passagers libanais
26 passagers burkinabè
51 passagers français
5 passagers canadiens
4 passagers allemands (german)
1 passager luxembourgeois
1 passager suisse
6 membres d'équipage espagnols
Source (in French)
http://www.aeroport-ouagadougou.com/informations_aeroport.php?idnew=154
Indeed a bad week for aviation
rgds
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By: 25th July 2014 at 04:24 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-French presidency confirming that the plane went down and crashed near Gossi in Mali close to the border with the Burkina-Faso border.
Plane is "disintegrated". Nobody seems to expect any survivor sadly
By: 25th July 2014 at 15:55 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-To my untrained eye, that looks like a high speed impact. There is hardly anything left!
By: 2nd August 2014 at 21:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-In a surprising move, the Fr Gendarmerie announced that they have closed their investigation and the site is to be wrapped up with pieces of interest brought back to France (some said a memorial could be erected on the site):
"I have finished my investigations relating to accident investigation and identifying the victims," said Colonel Patrick Touron, deputy head of the French Gendarmerie's Criminal Research Institute.
"We scraped the sand and gathered everything so there is nothing belonging to a victim that could have been left behind," Touron told AFP.
This closes a barely one week long on-site investigation.
As a side note:
it emerged that two people thought to have been on the plane had not boarded.
One of the two was an airline staff member whose name was in the list of passengers but who was not on the flight, Diendiere told AFP.
The second person had cancelled the booking the day before the flight but the change was not made to the list of passengers, he said.
Source:
http://www.franceinfo.fr/actu/monde/article/crash-du-ah5017-l-enquete-est-terminee-543801
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By: Bmused55 - 24th July 2014 at 10:41
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28460625
Have checked elsewhere. Nothing more known at this time.
Some sources suggest it is an A320. Others a wet leased MD83.