France’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that an Air Algerie plane that went missing over northern Mali has probably crashed. French military jets are searching the area for the wreckage.
“Despite intensive search efforts no trace of the aircraft has yet been found,” French Foreign Minster Laurent Fabius told journalists in Paris, Reuters reports. “The plane probably crashed,” he added.
An airport official in Burkina Fasa told NBC news earlier that the airplane had crashed after altering its route because of a storm.
The flight with 116 passengers aboard was on its way from Burkina Faso to the Algerian capital …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
