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Missing Air Algerie plane from Burkina Faso has crashed: Algerian official

Posted: 24 Jul 2014 06:38 AM PDT

By Hamid Ould Ahmed

ALGIERS (Reuters) - An Air Algerie flight crashed on Thursday en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board, an Algerian aviation official said.

There were few clear indications of what might of happened to the aircraft, or whether there were casualties, but Burkino Faso Transport Minister Jean Bertin Ouedrago said it asked to change route at 0138 GMT (9.38 p.m. EDT) because of a storm in the area.

"I can confirm that it has crashed," the Algerian official told Reuters, declining to be identified or give any details about what had happened to the aircraft on its way north.

Almost half of the passengers were French citizens, an airline official said.

Two French fighter jets based in the region have been dispatched to try to locate the airliner along its probable route, a French army spokesman said. Niger security sources said planes were flying over the border region with Mali to search for the flight.

Algeria's state news agency APS said authorities lost contact with flight AH 5017 an hour after it took off from Burkina Faso, but other officials gave differing accounts of the times of contact, adding to confusion about the plane's fate.

Swiftair, the private Spanish company that owns the plane, confirmed it had lost contact with the MD-83 operated by Air Algerie, which it said was carrying 110 passengers and six crew.

A diplomat in the Malian capital Bamako said that the north of the country - which lies on the plane's likely flight path - was struck by a powerful sandstorm overnight.

Whatever the cause, another plane crash is likely to add to nerves in the industry after a Malaysia Airlines plane was downed over Ukraine last week, a TransAsia Airways crashed off Taiwan during a thunderstorm on Wednesday and airlines canceled flights into Tel Aviv due to the conflict in Gaza.

An Air Algerie representative in Burkina Faso, Kara Terki, told a news conference that all the passengers on the plane were in transit, either for Europe, the Middle East or Canada.

He said the passenger list included 50 French, 24 Burkinabe, eight Lebanese, four Algerians, two from Luxembourg, one Belgian, one Swiss, one Nigerian, one Cameroonian, one Ukrainian and one Romanian. Lebanese officials said there were at least 10 Lebanese citizens on the flight.

A spokeswoman for SEPLA, Spain's pilots union, said the six crew were from Spain. She could not give any further details.

REGIONAL SEARCH

Swiftair said on its website the aircraft took off from Burkina Faso at 0117 GMT (9.17 p.m. EDT) and was supposed to land in Algiers at 0510 GMT (1.10 a.m. EDT) but never reached its destination.

An Algerian aviation official said the last contact Algerian authorities had with the missing Air Algerie aircraft was at 0155 GMT (9.55 p.m. EDT) when it was flying over Gao, Mali.

Aviation authorities in Burkina say they handed the flight to the control tower in Niamey, Niger, at 1:38 a.m. (09.38 p.m. EDT). They said the last contact with the flight was just after 4:30 a.m. (11.30 p.m. EDT).

Burkina Faso minister Ouedrago said the flight asked the control tower in Niamey to change route at 0138 GMT (9.38 p.m. EDT) because of a storm in the Sahara.

However, a source in the control tower in Niamey, who declined to be identified, said it had not been contacted by the plane, which in theory should have flown over Mali.

Burkinabe authorities have set up a crisis unit in Ouagadougou airport to provide information to families.

Issa Saly Maiga, head of Mali's National Civil Aviation Agency, said that a search was under way for the missing flight.

"We do not know if the plane is Malian territory," he told Reuters. "Aviation authorities are mobilized in all the countries concerned - Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Algeria and even Spain."

Aviation websites said the missing aircraft, one of four MD-83s owned by Swiftair, was 18-years-old. The aircraft's two engines are made by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies .

U.S. planemaker McDonnell Douglas, now part of Boeing , stopped producing the MD-80 airliner family in 1999 but it remains in widespread use. According to British consultancy Flightglobal Ascend, there are 482 MD-80 aircraft in operation, many of them in the United States.

"Boeing is aware of the report (on the missing aircraft). We are awaiting additional information," a spokesman for the planemaker said.

Swiftair has a relatively clean safety record, with five accidents since 1977, two of which caused a total of eight deaths, according to the Washington-based Flight Safety Foundation.

Air Algerie's last major accident was in 2003 when one of its planes crashed shortly after take-off from the southern city of Tamanrasset, killing 102 people. In February this year, 77 people died when an Algerian military transport plane crashed into a mountain in eastern Algeria.

(Additional reporting by Patrick Markey, Daniel Flynn, David Lewis, Mathieu Bonkoungou, Julien Toyer, Tracy Rucinski, Laila Bassam, Marine Pennetier and Tim Hepher; Writing by Patrick Markey; Editing by Alison Williams)

ASTRO HARUS BERI PENJELASAN ATAU DIBOIKOT KERANA ANUGERAH KONTRAK PADA SYARIKAT ISRAEL

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 08:12 PM PDT


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Militan Pro-Rusia mengaku menembak jatuh penerbangan MH17

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 07:01 PM PDT



KUALA LUMPUR: "Pegawai kami memberitahu bahawa kami menembak sebuah pesawat Kiev. Kami ingatkan kami mencari juruterbang Ukraine yang dikatakan sempat menyelamatkan diri, tetapi kami menemui mayat-mayat orang awam."

Itu pengakuan yang dibuat oleh seorang anggota militan pro-Rusia dari unit kombat Oplot kepada akhbar Itali Corriere della Sera pada Rabu.

Menurut laporan portal tersebut, mereka menerima arahan untuk bergegas ke sebuah lokasi menggunakan sebuah lori dipenuhi muatan senjata dan peluru sejurus selepas satu letupan kedengaran di udara.

Mereka diberitahu bahawa pasukan mereka telah menembak jatuh sebuah pesawat milik puak fasis Kiev.

"Objek-objek putih kelihatan berterbangan di udara. Kami mungkin perlu bertempur untuk mengumpulkan objek-objek terbabit." ujar anggota Oplot terbabit yang enggan mendedahkan namanya serta nama sekutunya.

Dia turut memberitahu bahawa ketika mereka mencari payung terjun di tanah dan pokok, dia menemui mayat seorang kanak-kanak perempuan yang berusia tidak lebih dari lima tahun.

"Mayat itu tertiarap. Ia sangat mengerikan. Itulah ketikanya saya sedari bahawa pesawat yang ditembak itu ialah sebuah pesawat komersial dan bukan pesawat tentera.

Semua mangsa ialah orang awam. Beberapa beg pakaian mengesahkan jangkaan saya." tambahnya.

Unit Oplot ini telah berada di lokasi nahas sejak tragedi itu berlaku.

Menurut portal Corriere della Sera, mereka bagaimanapun tidak menunjukkan rasa bersalah apabila mengeluarkan kenyataan bahawa bukan mereka sahaja yang menembak jatuh pesawat terbabit serta tidak mempunyai senjata yang mampu mencapai ketinggian pesawat itu.

"Jenayah ini dilakukan oleh penjahat yang menerima arahan daripada kerajaan Kiev. Salah seorang pejuang mereka mungkin menembak jatuh MH17," kata mereka.

Pengkuan ini dibuat selepas lima hari pemimpin puak pemisah pro-Rusia Igor Girkin memuat naik di laman sosial bahawa mereka terlibat dengan nahas terbabit dan mereka yang menembak jatuh pesawat malang itu.

Muat naiknya berbunyi: "Kami telah menembak jatuh sebuah AN-26, ia kini berada di sekitar 'Progress'. Kami telah memberi amaran kepada kamu – jangan terbang di 'ruang udara kami'. Ini video pengesahan 'kejatuhan burung' itu."

Muat naik itu bagaimanapun dipadam setelah pesawat yang ditembak jatuh itu merupakan sebuah pesawat komersial yang dinaiki orang awam.


Read more at: http://www.astroawani.com/news/show/militan-pro-rusia-mengaku-menembak-jatuh-penerbangan-mh17-40584?cp
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