Missing plane...again?!!!

[AAM2012]

Air Algerie plane, with 116 on board, falls off radar

By Claudia Rebaza, CNN
updated 6:52 AM EDT, Thu July 24, 2014

London (CNN) -- An Air Algerie flight, with 116 people on board, has dropped off radar, prompting a search for the missing plane, the airline's operator said Thursday.

Flight 5017 lost radar contact 50 minutes after takeoff from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, early Thursday. It was supposed to have arrived at Algiers' Houari Boumediene Airport about four hours later.

The plane, an MD-83, is carrying 110 passengers, two pilots and four crew members. The MD-83 is part of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 family of twin-engine, single-aisle jets.

A private Spanish company, Swiftair, operates the plane for Air Algerie.

"We have lost contact with the plane," Swiftair said.

"At this moment, emergency services and our staff are working on finding out more on this situation."

MORE TO COME

www.cnn.com/2014/07/24/world/africa/air-algerie-flight/index.html

[doobeedoo]

Jinx-I just posted the same thing at the same time, since I hadn't seen a post. Sorry!

[Velar Fricative]

Just coming to post. I am trying to make myself feel better by assuming this is getting more intense media coverage given recent events and that planes do disappear from radar but end up fine...right??

[CallingAllAngels]

That's it. I'm never flying again. WTF!?

[curbsideprophet]

So how long has it been missing?

[racegrrl714]

WTF is going on in this world?

[cattledogkisses]

I read that there was a major sandstorm in that region, so I'm thinking that has something to do with it. I doubt it's something sinister. Still, what a bad week for air transportation.

[jlt19]

Shouldn't that plane have been over land?

[secretlyevil]

Jul 24, 2014 7:03:17 GMT -5 racegrrl714 said:

WTF is going on in this world?

Third major issue with planes this year, so we're done now right?

[alleinesein]

Jul 24, 2014 7:39:20 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

Jul 24, 2014 7:03:17 GMT -5 racegrrl714 said:

WTF is going on in this world?

Third major issue with planes this year, so we're done now right?

4th. There was also a plane crash yesterday in taiwan due to the weather. Plus another plane went down in the pacific with 2 passengers.

[escrow]

I just came in here to see if this had been posted yet. What the actual fuck?? It's become the norm to wake up to news of missing airplanes.

[notsocreepylurker]

Great - I am flying tomorrow. Please no one shoot down my plane from Houston to NJ

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Jul 24, 2014 6:32:34 GMT -5 curbsideprophet said:

So how long has it been missing?

It's been 10 hours since they have had communication.

[iammalcolmx]

Jul 24, 2014 8:11:18 GMT -5 notsocreepylurker said:

Great - I am flying tomorrow. Please no one shoot down my plane from Houston to NJ

Or mine from Atlanta to PITT. Seriously I think we are cool and I am one of the nervous fliers onboard.

[notsocreepylurker]

Jul 24, 2014 8:12:20 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

Jul 24, 2014 8:11:18 GMT -5 notsocreepylurker said:

Great - I am flying tomorrow. Please no one shoot down my plane from Houston to NJ

Or mine from Atlanta to PITT. Seriously I think we are cool and I am one of the nervous fliers onboard.

Yea I am not a great flyer either.  Luckily for me I don't think Southwest has had a plane shot down this year

[debatethis]

Maybe I'll start traveling by ocean liner and train.

[iammalcolmx]

Jul 24, 2014 8:17:52 GMT -5 notsocreepylurker said:

Jul 24, 2014 8:12:20 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

Or mine from Atlanta to PITT. Seriously I think we are cool and I am one of the nervous fliers onboard.

Yea I am not a great flyer either.  Luckily for me I don't think Southwest has had a plane shot down this year

And their pilots aren't just going to up and disappear.

[Velar Fricative]

Officials confirm the plane crashed:

www.cnbc.com/id/101860767

An Air Algerie flight that went missing en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers has crashed, an Algerian aviation official told Reuters on Thursday.



"I can confirm that it has crashed," the official said, declining to give details of where the plane was or what caused the accident.



The flight carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso to Algeria's capital disappeared from radar early Thursday over northern Mali after heavy rains were reported, according to the plane's owner and government officials in France and Burkina Faso. Nearly half of the passengers were French.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

Jul 24, 2014 8:18:09 GMT -5 debatethis said:

Maybe I'll start traveling by ocean liner and train.

But there's like a .01% chance that your conductor will be texting while driving the train or your captain will run ashore while trying to holla at someone on the beach! There is so safe place!

[eclaires]

Maybe flight prices will go down because people will refuse to fly?

(sorry I can't resist a little sarcastic gallows humor)

[iammalcolmx]

.Minimum recorded temperature was -75C, meaning clouds up to ~49,500ft. Far above cruising altitude. @eumetsat @thatjohn @raestimr

[racegrrl714]

Jul 24, 2014 7:39:20 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

Jul 24, 2014 7:03:17 GMT -5 racegrrl714 said:

WTF is going on in this world?

Third major issue with planes this year, so we're done now right?

Jesus Christ on a cracker, I sure hope so.

[y4m]

I'm hearing downed due to weather.

But then what kind of weather? Why was it in the air?

[irishbride2]

I fly again in a week. Luckily sans kids so I can drink my fear away

[cinnamoncox]

Jul 24, 2014 8:39:26 GMT -5 y4m said:

I'm hearing downed due to weather.

But then what kind of weather? Why was it in the air?

I think sand storms but don't quote me I forget where I read that.

[iammalcolmx]

Jul 24, 2014 8:39:26 GMT -5 y4m said:

I'm hearing downed due to weather.

But then what kind of weather? Why was it in the air?

Scroll up the storm clouds were at 49,000 feet and YES why the hell was it in the air?

[meshaliuknits]

Jul 24, 2014 8:11:18 GMT -5 notsocreepylurker said:

Great - I am flying tomorrow. Please no one shoot down my plane from Houston to NJ

Try not to detour over Ukraine.

[Deleted]

Jul 24, 2014 8:18:09 GMT -5 debatethis said:

Maybe I'll start traveling by ocean liner and train.

But pirates and train conductors who are texting...

[awick14]

how am I supposed to convince DH that flying to Mexico is going to be no big deal.

[debatethis]

Jul 24, 2014 9:35:03 GMT -5 calamity said:

Jul 24, 2014 8:18:09 GMT -5 debatethis said:

Maybe I'll start traveling by ocean liner and train.

But pirates and train conductors who are texting...

Bunker. Montana. The end.