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No survivor in Algeria airliner crash

India Blooms News Service | | Jul 26, 2014, at 03:52 am

#No survivor in Algeria airliner crash

Algiers, July 25 (IBNS): There is no survivor in the Algeria's national airline Air Algerie crash which went missing on Thursday before meeting with the tragedy near Mali's border with Burkina Faso, media reports said on Friday.

There are no survivors from the Air Algerie AH 5017 passenger jet that crashed in Mali, BBC quoting French President Francois Hollande reported.

Hollande said one flight data recorder had been recovered.

The airline on Thursday said that it lost contact with one of its planes, with 110 passengers and six crew members on board, while flying from Burkina Faso to Algiers across the Sahara.

"Contact was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou. The plane was last seen at 0155 GMT," BBC quoting the airline reported.

The plane was flying through an area where there were violent storms.

Flight AH 5017 is owned by Spanish airline company Swiftair and is operated by Air Algerie.

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