Another Missing Boeing Airliner Now Confirmed as Crashed
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Air Algérie lost contact with flight 5017, which was en route in northern Africa from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria. The Boeing MD-83 jet was carrying 116 on board when it disappeared an hour after take-off over Northern Mali.
An Algerian official confirmed to Reuters that the airliner has crashed, though the cause remains unknown, as does the number of casualties. A Burkina Faso official said the plane asked to change routes because of a storm in the area.
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700 Dead or Missing This Year in Plane Tragedies
By Colleen Curry.
The numbers are stark, and chilling.
Four commercial planes have crashed or disappeared in just four months this year and, perhaps more startlingly, 700 lives have been lost.
The latest news of potential tragedy in the skies came this morning, when an Air Algerie plane flying over Africa with 116 aboard disappeared off radar.
The disappearance comes on the heels of two other high-profile incidents: the crash of TransAsia Flight 222 in Taiwan Wednesday, which killed 47, and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine last week, which had 298 aboard.
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