The Independent received confirmation from an Algerian aviation official about the crash of the plane, which was heading from Burkina Faso to Algiers across the Sahara.
There were 116 people (110 passengers and 6 crew members) on board of AH 5017 flight, plane owners Spanish airline Swiftair, out of them: France 51, Burkina Faso 27, Lebanon 8, Algeria 6, Canada 5, Germany 4, Luxembourg 2, Switzerland 1, Belgium 1, Egypt 1, Ukraine 1, Nigeria 1, Cameroon 1 and Mali 1, AP new agency reports.
A representative of the Spanish pilots’ union (SEPLA) told the Reuters news agency that all of the crew members were from Spain.
With reference to the local news agency the Guardian provides that air navigation services lost track of the plane at 1.55am GMT revealing that the news about its disappearance was made public only hours later.
The disappearance and further crash of flight AH5017 comes less than six months after Algeria’s worst air disaster in a decade. Some 77 people were killed when a military transport plane carrying members of the Algerian armed forces and their relatives hit a mountain and crashed near the village of Ouled Gacem in the east of the country. The picture below shows investigators at the crash site on February 12.
Photo: February crash of Algeria military transport plane
The today’s news comes days after the Malaysian plane crashed near Ukraine with all the 298 people on board having died.
Another plane "loss" occurred in March, 2014 when Boeing 777-200ER of the same Malaysia Airlines disappeared two hours after the departure. Almost half a year since the tragedy its location has not been identified. It is believed however that the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean, where the search of its debris is still in process.
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