Algerian Plane missing, 24 July 2014

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That presser was started 10 mins early.

All I picked up was that France wants its affected citizens to know the country is beside them, but that the search is going to be difficult and long because of the terrain. And that the secretary of state has already flown out to the area.
 
'An airport official confirmed to NBC News that wreckage from the plane had been located in neighboring Mali. According to the airport's Facebook page, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro's niece, Mariela, was among the passengers. NBC News could not immediately verify that report.'

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...17-crashed-mali-airport-official-says-n163731

I wonder which airport they are talking about? I want to link the FB page.
 
Air Algerie says missing plane likely crashed in Mali

By Laura Smith-Spark and Claudia Rebaza, CNN

updated 11:22 AM EDT, Thu July 24, 2014

London (CNN) -- An Air Algerie flight with at least 116 people on board which dropped off the radar in the early hours of Thursday has apparently crashed in Mali, the flight operator said.

Air Algerie said via Twitter that the plane has apparently crashed in the Tilemsi area, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) from the southeastern city of Gao.

Flight 5017 lost radar contact 50 minutes after takeoff from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, early Thursday. It was supposed to arrive at Algiers' Houari Boumediene Airport about four hours later...

...Ouagadougou Airport said in a post on its Facebook page that Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro, was among those on board. The Cuban Foreign Ministry is looking into the reports but was not aware she was on that plane, and CNN has not confirmed that she was on the flight...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/24/world/africa/air-algerie-flight/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
 
zwiebel said:
Here it is. Mariela Castro is listed.

http://www.aeroport-ouagadougou.com/informations_aeroport.php?idnew=154
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4:53 pm
The BBC's Havana correspondent reports that Mariela Castro - niece of the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro - was not on Flight AH5017, as claimed by Ouagadougou Airport.

Mariel Castro is reportedly in Havana, where she has been at a researchers' conference at the National Centre for Sexual Education in Cuba.

5:17 pm
Some more quotes from Mariela Castro, who has reportedly spoken to Venzuelan-based news channel TeleSUR.

"Honestly, I don't understand where such an absurd report has come from. Once more, this confirms there are media people who want to misinform and spread lies."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-air-algerie-flight-live-3905531#ixzz38Nmx05Et
 
zwiebel said:
'An airport official confirmed to NBC News that wreckage from the plane had been located in neighboring Mali. According to the airport's Facebook page, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro's niece, Mariela, was among the passengers. NBC News could not immediately verify that report.'

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...17-crashed-mali-airport-official-says-n163731

I wonder which airport they are talking about? I want to link the FB page.
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Aéroport de Ouagadougou - Airport FB page

*Just saw this on MH370... still reading to see what's going on. My heart goes out to family & loved ones
 
Have they found the crash site yet? I have seen a few different locations mentions, but nothing definitive.
 
Latest
19.35 French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said authorities were looking into every possible cause for the disappearance of the plane which had 51 French nationals on board, AFP reports.

"We cannot, we must not exclude any hypothesis before having all elements (at our disposal)," he said on French television, reiterating that the pilot of the plane - which had at least 116 people on board in total - had diverted its route due to bad weather."
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19.31 Efforts to reach the wreckage could prove perilous as it lies right in the heart of the Tuareg uprising and Islamist activity that has brought chaos to northern Mali, reports Hannah Strange.
The town of Kidal is a key stronghold of the Tuaregs in Mali and the centre of a recent upsurge in fighting between government forces and the separatist MNLA.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-plane-disappears-with-116-on-board-live.html
 
Mariela Castro Blasts Media Over Reports She Was On Air Algerie Flight

HAVANA - The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro blasted news organizations that reported she was on board the Air Algerie plane that went missing Thursday in West Africa. "It shows a lack of rigor on the part of the big news organizations," Mariela Castro told NBC News. "It caused alarm and unnecessary consternation here in Cuba. I am also worried that it took attention away from all the other important stories." ...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/m...edia-over-reports-she-was-air-algerie-n164111
 
Aguelhoc/k and Kidal don't appear to have any roads between them. It's just desert.

ETA: Aguelhoc is red pin, Kidal is purple.
 

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I'm so hopeless, I can't work out how to link individual tweets. But all msm now reporting wreckage spotted.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCAfrica

' "A witness informed us they had seen the plane falling at 0150 (GMT and local time Thursday)," said General Gilbert Diendiere, coordinator of the crisis unit established in Ouagadougou to try and find the jet.

The witness had indicated the plane may have crashed 80 kilometres (50 miles) southeast of the town of Gossi,'

Authorities are also saying that information from the witness lines up with radar info they have. I guess in the desert, there would be an unobstructed view for many miles of any plane falling out of the sky.

Hoping rescuers get there soon. I can't help holding out a tiny hope that maybe there are survivors, because the plane landed on sand.

http://news.yahoo.com/air-algerie-fight-seen-falling-northern-mali-official-185840823.html
 
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