In
the early hours of Thursday, an Algerian plane with at least 116
persons on board dropped off the radar and is feared to have crashed
in a remote area of Mali.
The
Airline, Air Algerie released a twitter saying that the plane had
apparently crashed in the Tilemsi area, about 70 kilometers from the
Southeastern city of Gao.
The
plane, Flight 5017 lost radar contact 50 minutes after takeoff from
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, early Thursday. It was supposed to arrive
at Algiers' Houari Boumediene Airport about four hours later.
This
is coming on the heel of several aviation disasters; the Malaysian
Airplane M17 and TransAsia Airways Flight GE 222 in Taiwan, which was said to have been caused by possible weather conditions. While all the passengers and crews lost their lives in the Malaysian M17, 48 people were killed and 10 injured in the
Taiwan crash.
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But
why are planes falling off the sky?
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