Air Algerie MD-83 missing

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Contact has been lost with an Air Algerie Boeing MD-83 with 110 passengers and six crew on board. Air Algerie has told Algeria’s state news agency that contact was lost with the aircraft, operating flight AH5017, about 50 minutes after take-off Thursday from Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. It was bound...
Karen Walker

Karen Walker is Air Transport World Editor-in-Chief and Aviation Week Network Group Air Transport Editor-in-Chief. She joined ATW in 2011 and oversees the editorial content and direction of ATW, Routes and Aviation Week Group air transport content.

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