• missing Air Algerie plane owned by Spain’s Swiftair is an Airbus A320 with 110 passengers and 6 crew on board
  • Swiftair and Air Algerie say they currently have no contact with the aircraft due to land in Algiers, having taken off in Burkina Faso

Let’s hope for the best .. The world certainly doesn’t need any more of these tragic incidents

Update:

  • Swiftair now saying the plane is a McDonnell Douglas 83 contrary to the earlier Air Algerie report above
  • contact lost an hour after take-off with AH 5017