Air Algerian wreckage found in Mali

PERSISMA – The Moroccan television channel “MEDI1 TV” was the first media to diffused in exclusivity the information related the exact localization of the crash of the Algerian airplane.

The wreck of an Air Algerian plane that went missing with 110 passengers on board has been found in Mali.

There were few clear indications of what might have happened to the aircraft.

Swiftair, the private Spanish company that owns the plane, confirmed it had lost contact with the MD-83 operated by Air Algerian, which it said was carrying 110 passengers and six crew.

An Air Algerian representative in Burkina Faso told a news conference that all the passengers on the plane were in transit, either for Europe, the Middle East or Canada.

He said the passenger list included 51 French, 26 Burkinabe, 20 Lebanese, four Algerians, two from Luxembourg, one Belgian, one Swiss, one Nigerian, one Cameroonian, one Ukrainian and one Romanian.

Lebanese officials said there were at least ten Lebanese citizens on the flight.

A spokeswoman for SEPLA, Spain’s pilots union, said the six crew were from Spain. She could not give any further details.

Swiftair said on its website the aircraft took off from Burkina Faso at 2.17am Irish time and was supposed to land in Algiers at 6.10am Irish but never reached its destination.

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