Algeria's national airline,
Air Algerie, says it has
lost contact with one of
its planes flying from
Burkina Faso.
Contact was lost about 50
minutes after take-off from
Ouagadougou, the airline is
quoted by Algeria's state
news agency as saying. The passenger airline was
bound for Algiers, it added. It is unclear how many
passengers were aboard
flight AH 5017, Reuters news
agency reports.

http://m.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28460625

Air navigation services lost
track of the Airbus A320
around 50 minutes after take-
off early today.
It was last sited at 1.55am
GMT, the official Algerian news agency said. The flight should have landed
in the Algerian capital at 5am
GMT.
'In keeping with procedures,
Air Algerie has launched its
emergency plan,' the agency quoted the airline as saying. The flight path of Flight
AH5017 from Ouagadougou,
the capital of the west
African nation of Burkina
Faso, to Algiers was not
immediately clear. Ougadougou is in a nearly
straight line south of Algiers,
passing over Mali where
unrest continues in the north. A source from Air Algerie
told the AFP news agency
said contact was lost while it
was still in Malian air space
approaching the border with
Algeria. The source said: '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." The airline announced that the
plane had gone missing in a
brief statement carried by
national news agency APS.
It added that the company
initiated an 'emergency plan' in the search for flight
AH5017, which flies the four-
hour passenger route four
times a week.

O not again

DonaldGenes: O not again

so scary!

So many plane crashes here and there.


Just wondering,has someone cast a spell on the aviation industry worldwide?

Danhumprey: So many plane crashes here and there.


Just wondering,has someone cast a spell on the aviation industry worldwide?

time to clean and oil my bicycle

Again.

I ain't flying again this year!