Air Algerie plane disappears from radar

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The Associated Press


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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The official Algerian news agency says an Air Algerie flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers has disappeared from the radar.

APS said air navigation services lost track of the plane 50 minutes after takeoff early Thursday, last sited at 0155 GMT.

Story developing....

[FBD]

damn aliens :willie:

[redred]

shot down by NATO/UN/Obama

in before FBD :cheer:

[redred]

:facepalm: he beat me by a minute

[FBD]

:lol:

[Hal-9000]

:lol:


on a serious note - I ain't flying anywhere again


:takethetrain:

[redred]

I'm flying on the 10th if August :shock:

[Hal-9000]

I'm flying on the 10th if August :shock:

PIN numbers for all credit cards, bank cards, all computer passwords and street address and key to house please


I'll miss you :face:

[deebakes]

:rip: red

[FBD]

the flight lost radio transmission shortly after it was ordered to change its course due to "poor weather." According to an Air Algerie source "the plane was not far from the Algerian frontier when the crew was asked to make a detour because of poor visibility and to prevent the risk of collision with another aircraft on the Algiers-Bamako route. Contact was lost after the change of course."

Update: while there have been conflicting reports whether the plane crashed over Niger or Mali, we will go with the latter story as reported by AP: "A missing Algerian plane went down in central Mali, a U.N. representative says, contradicting earlier reports that it crashed in Niger. The plane crashed between Gao and Tessalit, Brigadier General Koko Essien, the commander of a Timbuktu-based operation with the U.N. mission in Mali, told DPA. Malian civil aviation authorities said they were on alert. “For the moment, we cannot speak of a crash, only of the disappearance of the plane from radars,” a representative told DPA by telephone."