Friday, July 25, 2014

Air Algerie Ah5017: 'No survivors' from accident in Mali



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Very nearly a large portion of the 116 individuals ready for French, as Alex Duval Smith reports 

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Wreckage of Algeria plane found French soldiers inspect the wreckage of the Air Algerie flight AH5017 at the crash site in Mali - 25 July 2014

As it happened: Air Algerie Ah5017 

There are no survivors from the Air Algerie Ah5017 traveler stream that smashed in Mali, says the French President, Francois Hollande. 

Mr Hollande said one flight information recorder had been recouped, after French troops arrived at the accident site close to Mali's outskirt with Burkina Faso. 

Air movement controllers lost contact with the plane at an opportune time Thursday after pilots reported extreme storms. 

Just about 50% of the 116 individuals ready for French, including a group of 10. 

The Mcdonnell Douglas MD-83 had been contracted from Spanish air transport, Swiftair. It was flying from Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, to Algiers. 

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Tomasz Schafernaker: "Storms extending up to 15km into the air can result in turbulence, good to beat all and lightning" 

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told French radio system RTL that "the flying machine was wrecked right now it smashed". 

"We think the flying machine smashed for reasons interfaced to the climate conditions, albeit no hypothesis could be barred right now," he said. 

A group of 100 French officers, with 30 vehicles, had headed out to the accident site on Friday, a French safeguard service official said. 

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The group was piece of a constrain that was sent to Mali a year ago to battle a revolt supported by al-Qaeda. 

"French troopers who are on the ground have begun the first examinations," Mr Hollande said on Friday. "Tragically there are no survivors." 

Dust storm caution 

Contact with flight AH 5017 was lost something like 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou right off the bat Thursday morning, Air Algerie said. 

The pilot had reached Niger's control tower in Niamey at around 01:30 GMT to change course in view of a dust storm, authorities say. 

Burkina Faso powers said the traveler rundown included 27 individuals from Burkina Faso, 51 French, eight Lebanese, six Algerians, two from Luxembourg, five Canadians, four Germans, one Cameroonian, one Belgian, one Egyptian, one Ukrainian, one Swiss, one Nigerian and one Malian. 

On Friday, the UK Foreign Office said a British man was likewise among the dead. He has yet to be recognized. 

The six group parts were Spanish, as indicated by the Spanish pilots' union. 

The group of 10 who kicked the bucket were from the east of France. They included Michel Reynaud and his ex, their two children and two little girls, and four grandchildren. 

A companion of the family told French daily paper Le Bien Public that they had been on "the trek of a lifetime" in Burkina Faso. "It is a disaster," she said. 

French troopers investigate the wreckage of the Air Algerie flight Ah5017 at the accident site in Mali - 25 July 2014 

A group of 100 French troopers set out to the district on Friday to secure the accident site 

Perspective of Ouagadougou airplane terminal, Burkina Faso 

The air ship had taken off from Ougadougou airplane terminal, and lost contact with the ground soon subsequently

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