Hollande
said one flight data recorder had been recovered, after French troops reached
the crash site near Mali’s border with Burkina Faso. The Air
traffic controllers lost contact with the plane early on Thursday after pilots
reported severe storms.
116
passengers on the air Algeria flight included 51 French citizens.
The
McDonnell Douglas md-83 had been chartered from Spanish airline, Swiftair. It
was flying from Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, to Algiers.
French
interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the aircraft was destroyed at the
moment it crashed.
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