LE BOURGET: The Air Algerie crash that killed 116 people in the Mali desert in 2014 was caused by the pilots failing to activate the plane’s anti-icing system and not responding properly when the plane stalled, investigators said Friday.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 crashed in northern Mali in bad weather, barely half an hour into its flight from Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou to Algiers, killing everyone on board.
France bore the brunt of the tragedy with 54 dead — nearly half of the victims — and in some cases, whole families wiped out.
Presenting the final report by investigators from France’s BEA civil …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
