SAD! 116 Passengers on board Missing Algerian Plane Feared Dead as Plane Wreckage is Found

The fate of the Air Algerie flight which vanished with 116 people on board en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers appears to have been uncovered after Mali's President confirmed wreckage has been found.

 Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said today that the wreckage of the flight had been spotted in his country's desert north.

'I have just been informed that the wreckage has been found between Aguelhoc and Kidal,' Keita said
during a meeting of political, religious and civil society leaders in Bamako. He did not give any more details.

This is the third major aviation disaster in a week, following the MH17 disaster in Ukraine and the TransAsia Airways crash in Taiwan yesterday. Nearly 250 people died in these two crashes and the week's grim toll may now rise by 116 more.

A Nigerian has been reported among the passengers on AH5017. Air navigation services lost track of the Swiftair MD-83 around 50 minutes into the flight after the crew reportedly asked to change course over fears it was flying into a storm.