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24 Jul 2014
Contact with the Air Algerie flight that went missing over Mali on Thursday with around 120 people on board was lost over the country's restive north, an official with the Mali prime minister's office told AFP.
"We know... that the plane that was carrying around a 100 people, including some 50 French, was lost from radar around Gao," the official said on condition of anonymity. - AFP
24 Jul 2014
Air Algerie flight has crashed, an Algerian aviation official says.
"I can confirm that it has crashed," the official said, declining to give details of where the plane was or what caused the accident. Reuters
24 Jul 2014
Two French fighter jets based in West Africa have been deployed to try and locate a missing Air Algerie flight, a French army spokesperson says.
"Two Mirage 2000 jets based in Africa were dispatched to try to locate the Air Algerie plane that disappeared on Thursday," Gilles Jaron says.
"They will search an area from its last known destination along its probable route." Reuters
24 Jul 2014
24 Jul 2014
24 Jul 2014
An Algerian aviation official said the last contact Algerian authorities had with a missing Air Algerie aircraft carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso to Algiers was at 01:55 GMT when it was flying over Gao, Mali.
Aviation authorities in Burkina say they handed the flight to the control tower in Niamey, Niger, at 01:38. They said last contact with the flight was just after 04:30. Reuters
24 Jul 2014
There were likely many French passengers on the Air Algerie flight, France's transport minister says.
"There were likely French people on board, and if there were French people on board there were certainly many of them," Frederic Cuvillier told reporters. Reuters
24 Jul 2014
24 Jul 2014
Issa Saly Maiga, head of Mali's National Civil Aviation Agency, says that a search is under way for the missing flight."We do not know if the plane is Malian territory," he told Reuters.
"Aviation authorities are mobilised in all the countries concerned - Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Algeria and even Spain."
24 Jul 2014
Burkinabe authorities have set up a crisis unit in Ouagadougou airport to provide information to families of people on the flight.
A diplomat in the Malian capital Bamako said that the north of the country - which lies on the plane's likely flight path - was struck by a powerful sandstorm overnight. Reuters
24 Jul 2014
24 Jul 2014
24 Jul 2014
24 Jul 2014
24 Jul 2014
Spanish private airline company Swiftair says it has lost contact with one of its airplane operated by Air Algerie with 110 passengers and six crew members on board.
The company says in a notice posted on its website that the aircraft took off from Burkina Faso at 01:17 local time and was supposed to land in Algiers at 0510 local time but never reached its destination - Reuters
