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Another Airplane Tragedy: Air Algerie Plane Carrying 116 Crashes Over Mali
Update: while there have been conflicting reports whether the plane crashed over Niger or Mali, we will go with the latter story as reported by AP: "A missing Algerian plane went down in central Mali, a U.N. representative says, contradicting earlier reports that it crashed in Niger. The plane crashed between Gao and Tessalit, Brigadier General Koko Essien, the commander of a Timbuktu-based operation with the U.N. mission in Mali, told DPA. Malian civil aviation authorities said they were on alert. “For the moment, we cannot speak of a crash, only of the disappearance of the plane from radars,” a representative told DPA by telephone."
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Not a day seems to pass in the past week without some airplane catastrophe: first over Ukriane, next over the South China Sea, now in western Africa over Mali where moments ago Air Algerie reported said that it had lost contact with one of its passenger aircraft carrying 116 people on board, nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso bound for Algiers. And what is most stunning is that just like in the MH17 case, the flight lost radio transmission shortly after it was ordered to change its course due to "poor weather." According to an Air Algerie source "the plane was not far from the Algerian frontier when the crew was asked to make a detour because of poor visibility and to prevent the risk of collision with another aircraft on the Algiers-Bamako route. Contact was lost after the change of course."
A company source told AFP that the missing aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and that some 110 people of various nationalities are listed as being on board the flight. The source said contact with the aircraft was lost while it was still in Malian airspace approaching the border with Algeria.
Despite international military intervention still under way, the situation remains unstable in northern Mali, which was seized by jihadist groups for several months in 2012.
On July 17, the Bamako government and armed groups from northern Mali launched tough talks in Algiers aimed at securing an elusive peace deal, and with parts of the country still mired in conflict.
"The plane was not far from the Algerian frontier when the crew was asked to make a detour because of poor visibility and to prevent the risk of collision with another aircraft on the Algiers-Bamako route," the Air Algerie source said.
"Contact was lost after the change of course."
The airline announced that the plane had gone missing in a brief statement carried by national news agency APS.
"Air navigation services have lost contact with an Air Algerie plane Thursday flying from Ouagadougou to Algiers, 50 minutes after takeoff," the statement said.
It added that the company initiated an "emergency plan" in the search for flight AH5017, which flies the four-hour passenger route four times a week.
CBC News further reports that Swiftair, the Spanish private airline company that owns the plane, said there were 110 passengers and six crew members on board the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 jet at the time.
The flight path of Flight AH5017 from Ouagadougou, the capital of the west African nation of Burkina Faso, to Algiers was not immediately clear. The flight typically takes around four hours. Ougadougou is in a nearly straight line south of Algiers, passing over Mali where unrest continues in the north.
Our condolences to the families.
Meanwhile with airspace over east Ukraine closed indefinitely, Israel inbound flights also grounded for an unknown period, should one also add west Africa to the no fly zone? How long until all global air traffic has to be reevaluated in light of all the countless warzones that have resulted in the past few years some 30,000 feet below where airplanes fly?
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Manmade global warming climate disruption/change.....get with the program.
the real story of MH17 is that ukraine atc's diverted it to a lower altitutde and course to mask bombers hitting rebel positions...
lets roll the cockpit tape and HEAR THE TRUTH...
neva gonna happen boss
Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States memorably stated in a letter in 1807: ‘nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the first, Truths; second, Probabilities; the third, Possibilities; the fourth, Lies. The first chapter would be very short.’
I swear, it will NOT be easy to get me on a plane these days...I guess Europe is out as a vacation destination, unless I go with the month-long ocean passage.
And that stupid suggestion about using the seat cushions as a 'flotation device' in the event of a water landing...yeah, but if we "land" from a few thousand feet up we might as well be over the parking lot at WalMart for all the good THAT would do. There wouldn't be much left to float...
I plan to return to USSA via tramp steamer if necessary.
LOL, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria are looking good even! At least they fucking made the trip.
Was it "the Jews" again, or the CIA?
I don't know what sort of "poor weather" was referred to but looking at flightradar24.com right now shows virtually clear skies all over North Africa.
George Carlin had a Hippy Dippy Weatherman bit that would pick up Russian ICBMs on his weather radar. The tag was something like "so don't sweat the thunderstorms."
Currently in Bamako, Mali LOCAL TIME 1PM it is OVERCAST at 90F with a 20% chance of Thunderstorms.
https://www.google.com/#q=current+weather+Mali
In Timbuktu it is 84F under Partly Cloudy skies.
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/weather_in_ML.aspx?forecastid=MLXX0002
Furthermore on www.weather.com FRONT PAGE, right now, it has the story of the missing jet..WITH A RADAR IMAGE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY.
I visited your link. There is NO FUCKING WEATHER REPORTS.
More like those pilots asked the local witch-doctor before they took off. He make BIG ju-ju for flight, lit many candles and gave them blessed chackenBonez for safety.
Excuse me. If you adjust the settings on FR24, it shows you clouds and other stuff in real time.
I repeat, there were no clouds showing earlier, maybe just a few wisps etc.
Edit: here you go: http://aracari.sytes.net/FR24-clouds.jpg
McDonnell Douglas MD-83
May as well have been a DC-10.
MD-8x are pieces of crap and all are in service in non-developed markets.
Crashed into the Sahara. Oops.
"Russian Separatists Suspected of Buk Missile Launch in Algeria---Kerry"
"US Calls for Moar Sanctions Against Moscow"
The US say they will have a satellite image of something bad for Russia on this, waiting on Banzai7 to supply the image.
From Adrian Ash of Bullionvault: Warning today of a "dire situation" in Gaza, the United Nations also reported that bandit army the Islamic State has ordered mass mutilation of women and girls in the Iraq city of Mosul, under its control since early June.
At this rate there will be no need for ' NO FLY ZONES ' eh Barry.
The White House cites NSA tracking twitter trending comments as proof that Putin shot this plane down.
"Two round trip tickets to Heathrow. Yessir. Will you be buying the optional parachute? We can charge it. Oh, you have your own? OK, it must meet the carry-on dimensions."
*****
This is really starting to look like autopilot hacking if it keeps up.
Cui Bono?
Aircraft crashes occur on a sufficiently frequent basis that a prearranged aircraft crash is an inexpensive way to eliminate a suspect without the arranging party being discovered. While drone strikes leave evidence in uncontrolled areas, aircraft accident sites are routinely secured without question and public information tightly controlled.
As long as there are no whistle blowers with evidence - the arranging party achieves it's objective and rationalizes their "good works and patriotism" by eliminating a suspected threat and providing work for jobs building replacement aircraft and flight crew.
A government that murders X people to assassinate Y suspect(s) is morally degenerate enough to murder hundreds to assassinate one.
Rumack: Can you fly this plane, and land it?
Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.
I think it's definitely Russian do it, really...
Nope...some additional BS
I think high altitude commercial space planes are going to be coming into vogue and service a lot quicker now.
the plane was not far from the Algerian frontier when the crew was asked to make a detour because of poor visibility and to prevent the risk of collision with another aircraft on the Algiers-Bamako route.
Strange there were two reasons to change course but note the second part of the sentence. Not a S-25 perchance?
let me be purrfectly clear too the house in this matter
this is not a mossad,mi6,cia operation.
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"Sir, we simply do not have enough aircraft to distibute the Border Invaders throughout America."
"What Should we do?"
"We have a plan to scare people off of the Airlines. It should free up several hundred aircraft to facilitate the US Invasion."
well played, sir.
Bonus!
And a little bit of advice for all you future globe trotters: If the goddamn control tower at the airfield is made of cow shit and reeds, take a fucking taxi. Or a mule. Or a rickshaw. Don't get on the fucking plane.
I'm not one for conspiracy theories but it seems a lot of bad luck for any country that doesnt support u.s foreign policy. Algeria refuses U.S bases and the plane is full of French who defy Russia trade sanctions and sell them more toys.
You know I don't know whether or not this was terrorism or just a crazy accident. But this disappearance and over Africa got me thinking.
We all know that there were reportedly over 10,000 MANPADS in Libya. We know various terrorist groups have their hands on them.
Now we have Obama raising a stink and causing this big ruckus over the Ukrainian disaster without evidence.
Did he or anyone stop to think that by Obama showing how 'big a deal it is' and showcasing how much attention of the world has been brought to the situation, that terrorists groups with MANPADS might want to tap into that and use them to bring down planes?
Obviously they would know it would be a big deal, but Obama's idiocy and opportunism to blame Russia, enact sanctions, and push WWIII over this, may indeed embolden terrorists to copycat since we showed how big of a deal it was. It wasn't just a big deal, Obama made it a super duper ultimate fantastical galactic deal. He just showed terrorists it might be possible to conduct the biggest attack since 9/11 by firing one of those MANPADS out of the 10,000 that are left. Real or not, that is how CIA/MI6/Sauid-Qatari backed terrorists might perceive it now. They can get the attention of the world and draw the wrath of their enemy.