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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