Loading ...Another Airplane Tragedy: Air Algerie Plane Carrying 116 Crashes Over Mali
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/24/2014 – 07:29 
Update: According to AP, the missing Algerian plane went down in central Mali, citing a U.N. representative, contradicting earlier reports that it crashed in Niger.
Not a day seems to pass in the past week without some airplane catastrophe: first over Ukriane, next over the South China Sea, now in western Africa over Mali where moments ago Air Algerie reported said that it had lost contact with one of its passenger aircraft carrying 116 people on board, nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso bound for Algiers. And what is most stunning is that just like in the MH17 case, the flight lost radio transmission shortly after it was ordered to change its course due to “poor weather.” According to an Air Algerie source “the plane was not far from the Algerian frontier when the crew was asked to make a detour because of poor visibility and to prevent the risk of collision with another aircraft on the Algiers-Bamako route. Contact was lost after the change of course.”