Another airplane disappeared

[hopenotlost]

Not sure if this was posted or not.  So weird!

www.cnn.com/2014/07/24/world/africa/air-algerie-flight/index.html?hpt=hp_t1


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 arrive at Algiers' Houari Boumediene Airport about four hours later.


The plane, an MD-83, was 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.


The plane belongs to a private Spanish company, Swiftair, but it appears to have been operated by Air Algerie.

Map: Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoMap: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso


"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."


Air Algerie said via Twitter, "Unfortunately, for the moment we have no more information than you do. We will give you the latest news live."


The tweet appears since to have been deleted.

France is actively seeking more information about the location of the missing flight, following unconfirmed reports that many French citizens may have been on board.


"We are entirely mobilized in Paris as well as in Algiers and Ouagadougou where our embassies are in constant contact with local authorities and the airline," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that a hotline number has been established.


Air Algerie is Algeria's national airline, with flights to 28 countries.


The deadliest incident in the airline's history occurred in March 2003 when a domestic flight crashed after takeoff, killing 102 people on board. One person survived.


In February, a Hercules C-130 military aircraft crashed in the mountains of eastern Algeria, killing 77 of the 78 people on board.


The MD-83's disappearance comes exactly a week after a Malaysia Airlines plane was brought down in Ukraine with 298 people on board.

[nessness]

They confirmed that it crashed, but no details yet. So sad (and weird that so many plane crashes are happening in a short amount of time).

[raangoli]

I didn't hear about the Thai plane, but I did hear about the Taiwanese crash that happened yesterday. This is all very creepy and has me slightly spooked.

[aurora]

This feels like it is starting to defy statistics.

[hopenotlost]

I just saw the reports that it crashed. This makes me so sad! And I also can't help but wonder why so many airplanes are crashing.

[Deleted]

Jul 24, 2014 9:13:31 GMT -5 hopenotlost said:

I just saw the reports that it crashed. This makes me so sad! And I also can't help but wonder why so many airplanes are crashing.

Honestly, I think it is a fluke.  This one was weather related, Malaysian Air was flying in hostile territory.  I think (hope) now that there has been a big batch of them we will go months/year without any more.

[hopenotlost]

Jul 24, 2014 9:45:11 GMT -5 @kjewell said:

Jul 24, 2014 9:13:31 GMT -5 hopenotlost said:

I just saw the reports that it crashed. This makes me so sad! And I also can't help but wonder why so many airplanes are crashing.

Honestly, I think it is a fluke.  This one was weather related, Malaysian Air was flying in hostile territory.  I think (hope) now that there has been a big batch of them we will go months/year without any more.

I really hope this is the case!

[raangoli]

Jul 24, 2014 11:02:18 GMT -5 @sfgal530 said:

Jul 24, 2014 9:05:15 GMT -5 raangoli said:

I didn't hear about the Thai plane, but I did hear about the Taiwanese crash that happened yesterday. This is all very creepy and has me slightly spooked.

That was probably the one I was thinking of.  I couldn't remember exactly where it was - just a SE Asian country that started with a "T".  I just saw the headline briefly on the television at the gym so I don't know any of the details.  

I was scared/sad that there might have been yet another one.