Friday, July 25, 2014

Algerie airline crashed on route from Burkina Faso



The big disaster has occurred in a week when An Air Algerie jetliner crashed in a rainstorm which carrying 116 people on Thursday, July24. It confirmed after find out the wreckage of plane at the border of neighboring Burkina Faso.

The MD-83 plane was route from Burkina Faso’s capital of Ouagadougou to Algiers and it disappeared from radar screens less than an hour from take off. The plane owned by Spanish company Swift air and leased by Algeria’s flagship carrier.

The wreckage found 50 kilometers from the border of Burkina Faso near the village of Boulikessi in Mali. The President Blaise Compaore organized a committee to investigate the facts of flight crash.  The President said that rescuers went to the area to find out the wreckage with help of the inhabitants of the area. The searchers went after hearing from the resident who seeing the plane goes down from 80 kilometers. 

Burkina Faso authorities said the passenger list comprised 27 people from Burkina Faso, 51 French, eight Lebanese, and six Algerians, two from Luxembourg, five Canadians, four Germans, one Cameroonian, one Belgian, one Egyptian, one Ukrainian, one Swiss, one Nigerian and one Malian. 

All six crew members are Spanish. The contact was lost between Gao and Tessalit at Mali due to bad weather.

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