Algeria-bound plane from Burkina Faso missing

Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, says it
has lost contact with one of its planes flying
from Burkina Faso.
Contact was lost about 50 minutes after
take-off from Ouagadougou, the airline is
quoted by Algeria’s state news agency as
saying.
The passenger airliner, last seen at 0155
GMT, was bound for the Algerian capital
Algiers, it added.
Flight AH 5017 had 110 passengers and six
crew on board, officials said.
“In keeping with procedures, Air Algerie has
launched its emergency plan,” Air Algerie
officials, quoted by APS news agency, said.
The plane is chartered from Spanish airline
Swiftair.
In a statement (in Spanish) , Swiftair said that
the aircraft was an MD83 and that they were
unable to establish contact with the plane.
The plane was originally scheduled to land at
0510 local time, it said.
Flight AH 5017 flies the Ouagadougou-
Algiers route four times a week, AFP news
agency reported.