24jul2014: Air Algerie/Spanish Swiftair MD83 accident.

[Stratofreighter]

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... ou-401969/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28460625

http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/ ... 61613.html
It may concern a Spanish Swiftair plane flying for Air Algerie.

EDIT: as you wish...

[IL76TD]

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... ou-401969/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28460625

http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/ ... 61613.html
It may concern a Spanish Swiftair plane flying for Air Algerie.

EC-LTV MD83 is flying for Air Algerie.

[T7]

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... ou-401969/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28460625

http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/ ... 61613.html
It may concern a Spanish Swiftair plane flying for Air Algerie.

EC-LTV MD83 is flying for Air Algerie.

Swiftair confirms it is one of their MD83's:
http://www.swiftair.com/corporativa/NOTA.pdf

110 pax plus 6 crew..

[Ricardo 767-200ER]

EC-LTV (indeed swift air md-80) was operating flight dah5017 on 24/07/2014 acc. Fr24 database..

May to people who perished, rest in peace..

This is a very bad week for aviation

Ricardo

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[Stratofreighter]

Some more details have come to light:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/contact-los ... zwls1.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28465010 is receiving several updates this Thursday afternoon.

[Key]

Twenty minutes ago, the Ouagadougou airport website announced that French forces from Mali (presumably the two figher acft sent on search) have discoverd the wreck of AH5017, halfway betwen Gao and Kidal in an inaccessible desert area.
The message is in French and contains a map.

http://www.aeroport-ouagadougou.com/inf ... ?idnew=154

According FR24, the aircraft involved was EC-LTV.

Erik

[ehusmann]

May I ask that the topic title can remain unchanged, unless really needed? This topic is not about the fact that the wreck is found, it is about the total incident/accident. Changing the topic title with every update will only make it confusing. Thanks.

Erwin

[Triple]

May I ask that the topic title can remain unchanged, unless really needed? This topic is not about the fact that the wreck is found, it is about the total incident/accident. Changing the topic title with every update will only make it confusing. Thanks.

Erwin

Very important!!!

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[Stratofreighter]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28528174

The French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, has revealed that the pilots of an airliner that crashed in Mali last Thursday had asked to turn back.

The plane's two flight data recorders have arrived in France.

The French investigators at the crash site were facing "extremely difficult conditions," Mr Fabius said

French, Malian and Dutch soldiers from a UN peacekeeping force (MINUSMA) have secured the site, about 80 km (50 miles) south of the Malian town of Gossi, near the Burkina Faso border.