Air Algerie

Live: All passengers and crew on board Air Algerie dead, confirms France

An Air Algerie flight AH5017 has gone missing 50 minutes after takeoff from Burkina Faso. Track live updates here.

Air Algerie crash: Team of experts converges on site for probe

Aviation experts, criminal investigators and soldiers began converging on an isolated patch of restive Mali to search for clues for the Air Algerie crash.

MH17 to Air Algerie: For aviation industry, disasters come in a cluster

Aviation analysts and safety experts say they can find no common themes. Nor do they think the events indicate that flying is suddenly becoming less safe.

Air Algerie wreckage found near Mali making it third such tragedy this week

The plane, owned by Spanish company Swiftair and leased by Algeria's flagship carrier, disappeared from radar less than an hour after it took off from Burkina Faso's capital of Ouagadougou for Algiers.

Official: Air Algerie flight carrying 116 people 'probably crashed'

An Air Algerie flight carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso to Algeria's capital disappeared from radar early Thursday over northern Mali, officials said. France's foreign minister said no wreckage had been found, but that the plane "probably crashed."

Air Algerie flight from Burkina Faso crashed with 110 passengers on board

Algeria's state news agency APS said authorities lost contact with flight AH 5017 an hour after it took off from Burkina Faso

Air Algerie flight vanishes over Northern Mali, 116 on board

Air Algerie Flight 5017 was being operated by Spanish airline Swiftair, the company said in a statement. The Spanish pilots' union said the plane belonged to Swiftair and it was operated by a Spanish crew.