Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost contact with one of its planes [a SwiftAir MD-830 as above] flying from Burkina Faso to Algiers across the Sahara.
Contact was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou, the airline said.
The passenger airliner was last seen at 0155 GMT, it added. It should have landed at 0510.
Flight AH 5017 had 110 passengers and six crew on board, Spanish airline Swiftair, which owns the plane, said.
Algeria airliner missing on Sahara route from Burkina Faso (BBC)
UPDATE: Missing Air Algerie Flight Has Crashed
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stolen for scrap?
nice.. people are likely dead.. take a bow
Somewhere in the world right now, possibly on a cruise ship, Denis Bergkamp is pulling the biggest ‘I told you so’ face ever.
I believe the missing plane is an MD83 this appears to be an A330.
The photo of an Airbus A320 you are showing here is not the missing plane. The missing plane appears to have been leased from the Spanish Swiftairand is a Boeing MD-83 (used to be called the McDonnell Douglas DC-9).
Sorry – that should have A330
I think that’s a A330-300 pictured which has an outstanding safety record.