Air Algerie Crash Investigators Weigh Weather as Cause
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An Air Algerie MD-83 carrying 116 people crashed in Mali as it flew to Algiers from Burkina Faso, leaving no survivors and marking the third major civil-aviation disaster in the space of a week.
Flight AH5017 took off from the west African country shortly after midnight yesterday carrying 110 passengers and six Spanish crew and is thought to have crashed about two hours later. A Reaper drone located the wreckage inside the territory of Mali, near the Burkina Faso border, and a French military helicopter formally identified the plane at 2 a.m.