The company said in a notice posted on its website that the aircraft took off from Burkina Faso and was supposed to land in Algiers at 0510 (5am)local time but never reached its destination.... A source from Air Algerie told the AFP news agency
"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"
According to AFP,Flight AH 5017 flies the Ouagadougou-Algiers route four times a week...The missing aircraft has 110 passengers and six crew on board..
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