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The wreck of a plane that disappeared with 116 people on board on a flight
from Burkina Faso to Algiers has been found in Mali, officials say.
The Burkinabe army said the plane, operated by Algeria's national airline
Air Algerie, had crashed about 50km (30 miles) from the Burkina Faso border.
Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane early on Thursday after
pilots reported severe storms.
The passengers included 51 French citizens.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 - Flight AH 5017 - had been chartered from
Spanish airline Swiftair.
Malian state television confirmed that the wreckage was found in the
village of Boulikessi by a helicopter from Burkina Faso, the Associated Press
news agency reports.
Gilbert Diendere, a Burkina Faso army general, said Mali had agreed to
their cross-border search which was launched after a resident in Gossi described
seeing a plane go down to the south-west of the town.
"They found human remains and the wreckage of the plane totally burnt and
scattered," he told AP.
French fighter jets and UN helicopters had been hunting for the wreck in
the more remote desert region of northern Mali between Gao and Tessalit.
Contact with Flight AH 5017 was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from
Ouagadougou on Thursday morning, Air Algerie said.
The pilot had contacted Niger's control tower in Niamey at around 01:30 GMT
to change course because of a sandstorm, officials say.
Burkina Faso authorities said the passenger list comprised 27 people from
Burkina Faso, 51 French, eight Lebanese, six Algerians, two from Luxembourg,
five Canadians, four Germans, one Cameroonian, one Belgian, one Egyptian, one
Ukrainian, one Swiss, one Nigerian and one Malian.
The six crew members are Spanish, according to the Spanish pilots'
union.
Flight AH 5017 flies the Ouagadougou-Algiers route four times a week, AFP
reported.
据悉，马里总统凯塔今天表示，已在北部沙漠地带发现失踪阿尔及利亚航空公司客机的残骸。这架飞机上载有116位乘员，包括50名法国人，经证实，该客机上并无中国乘客。
疑因天候欠佳在马里上空失联。
据悉，这也是过去航空史上“悲惨一周”的第三起重大飞机事故。7月17日，马来西亚航空公司MH17航班的一架客机在乌克兰东部地区疑被击落，机上298人全部丧生。7月23日，台湾复兴航空GE222航班因迫降失败坠毁，机上48人死亡、10人受伤。
据悉，这架飞机当时正从布基纳法索首都瓦加杜古飞往阿尔及利亚首都阿尔及尔。航班的起飞时间是当地时间1点17分，到达时间是5点10分。不过，飞机起飞不到半小时即从雷达上消失。
阿尔及利亚总理塞拉勒表示，飞机是在马里的加奥(Gao)地区与地面失联的。有消息称，飞机在该地区遭遇了强风暴，曾被告知临时改变航线以避免与其他飞机相撞。在飞机改变航线后不久，便从雷达中消失。
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发表于 2016-7-10 18:08:21