An Air Algerie flight that went missing en route from
Burkina Faso to Algiers with 116 people on board including 50 French nationals
has crashed in Sahara desert.
Among those aboard were Mariela Castro, the 51-year-old
daughter of Cuban president Raul Castro and niece of former leader Fidel
Castro.
Air navigation services lost track of the Swiftair MD-83
around 50 minutes into the flight after the crew reportedly asked to change
course due to a storm.
The plane, which is operated by Air Algerie, was last
picked up on radar at 1.55am GMT and should have landed in the Algerian capital
around three hours later.
Wreckage of the plane has reportedly been spotted by
French fighter jets in the Saharan sand in Mali.
It comes after a treacherous week for the aviation
industry in which 298 people were killed when Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane was
shot down over Ukraine and 48 people died in a crash in Taiwan.
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