{"id":15555,"date":"2014-07-25T08:39:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T08:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/no-survivors-from-plane-crash-in-mali\/"},"modified":"2014-07-25T08:36:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T08:36:55","slug":"no-survivors-from-plane-crash-in-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/no-survivors-from-plane-crash-in-mali\/","title":{"rendered":"‘No Survivors’ From Plane Crash in Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{The aircraft had taken off from Ougadougou airport, and lost contact with the ground soon afterwards}<\/p>\n

{{There are no survivors from the Air Algerie AH5017 passenger jet that crashed in Mali, says the French President, Francois Hollande.}}<\/p>\n

Mr Hollande said one flight data recorder had been recovered, after French troops reached the crash site near Mali’s border with Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n

Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane early on Thursday after pilots reported severe storms.<\/p>\n

The 116 passengers on the Air Algerie flight included 51 French citizens.<\/p>\n

The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 had been chartered from Spanish airline, Swiftair. It was flying from Burkina Faso’s capital, Ougadougou, to Algiers.<\/p>\n

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told French radio network RTL that “the aircraft was destroyed at the moment it crashed”.<\/p>\n

“We think the aircraft crashed for reasons linked to the weather conditions, although no theory can be excluded at this point,” he said.<\/p>\n

A team of 100 French soldiers, with 30 vehicles, had travelled to the crash site on Friday, a French defence ministry official said.<\/p>\n

The team was part of a force that was deployed to Mali last year to combat an insurgency backed by al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n

“French soldiers who are on the ground have started the first investigations,” French President Francois Hollande said on Friday. “Sadly there are no survivors.”<\/p>\n

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Contact with Flight AH 5017 was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou early on Thursday morning, Air Algerie said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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