OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- The wreckage of an air algerie plane with 116 people on board that disappeared from radar during a rainstorm has been found in Mali, a top official from Burkino Faso and Malian state television said Thursday. The crash of the DAKAR, Senegal — The wreckage of an Air Algérie jetliner was found late Thursday in a semidesert area in Mali, and there appeared to be no survivors of the crash, the top military official in neighboring Burkina Faso said Thursday night. The plane, an ALGIERS, Algeria — An air algerie flight carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso to Algeria’s capital disappeared from radar early Thursday over northern Mali and “probably crashed,” according to the plane’s owner and government officials in France An international salvage force including United Nations and French troops rushed to secure the site of the downed air algerie MD-83, which crashed in Mali en route to Algiers from Burkina Faso, leaving no survivors. The group, which includes more than 200 The wreckage of Air Algérie flight AH5017 from Burkina Faso to Algeria, which disappeared from radar with 116 people on board, has been discovered in Tilemsi, Mali, it was claimed on Thursday. However, searches were later said to be continuing. The French OUAGADOUGO, Burkina Faso (AP) - An Air Algerie jetliner carrying 116 people crashed Thursday in a rainstorm over restive Mali, and its wreckage was found near the border of neighboring Burkina Faso - the third major international aviation disaster in a week. .
“The plane disappeared at Gao [in Mali], 500 km [or 300 miles] from the Algerian border,” Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said, according to the BBC. [READ: Air Algerie Flight Carrying 116 People Vanishes Over Northern Mali] The plane’s Mystery shrouded the downing of an Air Algerie flight that crashed in the terrorist heartland of northern Mali with 116 people on board – almost half of them French. Almost exactly a week after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down by a surface-to 116 people were on board the flight. Air Algerie Flight 5017 went missing from radar while traveling over Africa early on July 24. The flight was headed to Algiers, Algeria from Burkina Faso and crashed over Mali. 116 passengers were on board the flight. Air Algérie Flight AH5017 has lost contact with air controllers over northern Africa. The plane was carrying 110 passengers from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to Algiers, Algeria. The plane was last seen about 50 minutes after takeoff and the flight plan for .
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