Air Algerie jet crashes over Africa | Video

Updated July 25 2014 - 11:22am, first published 10:54am
The Swiftair MD-83 airplane, which crashed on July 24, is seen taking off from Hamburg airport June 15, 2014. The Air Algerie flight with 110 passengers onboard, nearly half of them French citizens, crashed on Thursday after the jet disappeared over northern Mali en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers, an Algerian official said. Swiftair, the private Spanish company that owns the plane, confirmed it had lost contact with the MD-83 operated by Air Algerie. Picture taken June 15, 2014. REUTERS/Lennart Boettcher
The Swiftair MD-83 airplane, which crashed on July 24, is seen taking off from Hamburg airport June 15, 2014. The Air Algerie flight with 110 passengers onboard, nearly half of them French citizens, crashed on Thursday after the jet disappeared over northern Mali en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers, an Algerian official said. Swiftair, the private Spanish company that owns the plane, confirmed it had lost contact with the MD-83 operated by Air Algerie. Picture taken June 15, 2014. REUTERS/Lennart Boettcher

An Air Algerie flight has crashed en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers on Thursday with 110 passengers on board, an Algerian aviation official said.

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