On July 24, 2014, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 leased from SwiftAir and flown for Air Algérie disappeared fifty minutes into the flight between Ouagadougou Airport and its destination in Algiers, Algeria. Pilots requested a route change request due to weather.
The hundred and ten passengers and six Spanish crew members were aboard. Algiers is a transit point for Lebanese flying home to Beirut. Twenty Lebonese were aboard, including Fadi Rustom and Joseph Hajj from Aintoura, and Omar Ballan from Ghazir. About fifty French may be aboard also.
The most recent report is that the plane crashed in Niger, according to Elnahar TV.
Mali is unstable, but an airline spokesperson said unofficially “the fighters have shoulder-fired weapons which could not hit an aircraft at cruising altitude.”
METAR Weather report:
01:00 UTC / 01:00 local time:
DFFD 240100Z 23008KT 9999 FEW020 BKN100 26/23 Q1015 NOSIG
02:00 UTC / 02:00 local time:
DFFD 240200Z 22006KT 9999 TS FEW020 FEW033CB BKN100 25/23 Q1014 TEMPO 4000 TSRA
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In July, a smoking laptop in a passenger’s bag led to the evacuation of a plane awaiting takeoff. Last year, a flight made an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Florida, after a battery caught fire in an overhead bin.
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In 1967, the CIA’s A-12 “Oxcart” spy plane, a predecessor to the SR-71 Blackbird, flew high-risk reconnaissance missions over Vietnam.
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Honolulu EMS said that the flight attendants had shown symptoms of “nausea and disturbed coordination” from the smell, local media reported.
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Bill Reeves has never told the full story of his 43-hour struggle to survive in the Colorado mountains.
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When the athlete boarded the flight, she was surprised to find that someone was already sitting in the seat she paid for.
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DULLES, Va. (DC News Now) –People from across the DMV gathered at Dulles International Airport on Saturday, raising $580,000 for the Special Olympics in the annual Dulles Day Plane Pull. The …
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The Yellowstone County Detention Facility “Mile High Cell Block Five” team competes in the 2024 East Plane Pull fundraiser for Special Olympics Montana at the Billings Airport. Teams competed to
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The plane, a type of experimental aircraft that resembled an extensively modified Piper PA-12, crashed on a road near Finger Lake on Saturday morning, the NTSB’s Alaska chief said.
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BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport reports a minor plane crash at the airport on Saturday. The crash happened off the end of the general aviation runway and involved a small single-engine plane.
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Later this month, a unique event in South St. Paul will challenge teams to pull a World War II bomber and raise money for Minnesota veterans.
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Investigators looking into the cause of a fatal plane crash last month near McGrath have recovered the wreckage and will soon begin examining it for evidence of mechanical problems.
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Two people have escaped serious injury following a plane crash that happened on a golf course outside of Centennial Airport in the Denver, Colorado area.
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Heart Aerospace unveils its first full-scale demostrator hybrid-electric aircraft, 30-seat aircraft can fly 200km on battery, first flight in 2025.
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Google Flights released its 2024 travel trends, including the best time to buy plane tickets for fall and holiday travel.
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The baseball star died after flying on a poorly-maintained and overloaded DC-7 freighter.
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COTTONWOOD — Marilyn Benkendorf was reading the Bible and getting ready to go to church when an airplane crashed into her yard on Spur Drive near the airport on early
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Owen Renaud graduated from South Hamilton High last spring. On Friday, his loved ones, close friends and community members came together to honor him.
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