An Air Algerie-operated MD-83 carrying 116 passengers and crew disappeared en route from Burkina Faso in Africa to Algiers, the aircraft麓s owner said. The plane, which took off in the West African country shortly after midnight, was supposed to land at 5:10 a.m. local time, Swiftair, a charter company based in Spain, said in a statement today.
The jet may have crashed in Mali, the BBC reported, citing a United Nations official. Contact was lost over Gao, Mali, about 50 minutes after take-off, the news service said. The plane carried 110 passengers and six crew. “There has been no contact with the plane until now,” Swiftair said. “Emergency teams and the company麓s personnel are working to figure out what happened and will notify people as further information is available.”
A loss of the aircraft would mark the third major incident in a week around the world for commercial airliners. A Malaysian Air Boeing Co. 777 went down over eastern Ukraine on July 17 following a suspected missile strike, killing all 298 people on board, while an ATR-72 turbo-prop crash yesterday on the Penghu Islands in Taiwan left 48 people dead.
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