{{France’s president has promised that the bodies of 118 people who died when an Air Algerie plane crashed in Mali will be brought to France.}}<\/p>\n
Francois Hollande was speaking after he met victims’ families in Paris. Fifty-four French nationals were on board flight AH5017. There were no survivors.<\/p>\n
The plane was flying from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital, to Algiers.<\/p>\n
Earlier, UN search teams scouring the remote site found the second flight data recorder from the plane.<\/p>\n
Three days of national mourning are to be observed across France from Monday, Mr Hollande’s office said.<\/p>\n
Among the French contingent on board flight AH5017 was a family of 10.<\/p>\n
Algeria is already observing three days of mourning for the crash.<\/p>\n
Mr Hollande said a memorial would be erected at the site and that those families who wished to do so would be able to visit the site.<\/p>\n
Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane early on Thursday after pilots reported severe sandstorms.<\/p>\n
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