This is getting ridiculous!Spanish private airline company Swiftair confirmed it had no contact with its MD-83 aircraft operated by Air Algerie, which it said was carrying 110 passengers and six crew.
The company said in a notice posted on its website that the aircraft took off from Burkina Faso at 0117 GMT (2117 ET) and was supposed to land in Algiers at 0510 GMT but never reached its destination.
An Algerian aviation official said the last contact Algerian authorities had with a missing Air Algerie aircraft carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso to Algiers was at 0155 GMT when it was flying over Gao, Mali.
Makes me want to cancel my flight to California in November. Four major tragedies in a span of a few months?
Makes me want to cancel my flight to California in November. Four major tragedies in a span of a few months?
The plane sent its last message around 9:30 p.m. ET, asking Niger air control to change its route because of heavy rains in the area, Ouedraogo said.
So they went through a heavy storm...Perhaps lightning struck one of the engines and then it lost control and went down. Tragic, but not an earth shattering story. Media just wants to drum up paranoia amongst the population and get their ratings up.
The reason aircraft crashes make news is because they're rare and the possibility that a few hundred people can be killed in one event.So they went through a heavy storm...Perhaps lightning struck one of the engines and then it lost control and went down. Tragic, but not an earth shattering story. Media just wants to drum up paranoia amongst the population and get their ratings up.
Airport says French forces have located wreckage in remote desert area
Air Algerie says the plane apparently crashed in the Tilemsi area of Mali
None of these are in the US.
Also, even in 4months "only" a few hundred people have/may have been killed on planes. In just a few days, that many people get killed in auto accidents.
Stop being paranoid, you're fine. Especially flying here in this country.