A North African airliner reported missing on Thursday has crashed in bad weather, the third air disaster in a week.
Contact was lost with flight AH5017 just 50 minutes after take off en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers.
The aircraft carrying 116 passengers and crew has reportedly crashed in Mali, near the Burkina Faso border.
The Air Algerie plane was diverted from its usual path due to bad weather before contact was lost with the aircraft.
Rescue crews have since reached the crash site with confirmation no survivors were found.
The crash is the third air tragedy in a week after Taiwanese aircraft GE222 crash landed on Wednesday, killing 48 and flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine killing all 298 on board.
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JULY 24 6PM: A NORTH African airliner has gone missing with reports contact was lost with the plane just 50 minutes after take-off.
The Air Algerie plane en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers has 110 passengers and six crew members onboard.
In a statement on the company website, the aircraft took off from Burkina Faso at 0117 local time and was scheduled to land in Algiers at 0510 local time but never reached its destination.
An emergency plan has been initiated according to reports in the search for flight AH5017.
Algeria suffered one of its worst air disasters in February after a C-130 military aircraft carrying 78 people crashed in the mountainous northeast, killing more than 70 people.
It comes just days after flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine and months after flight MH370 went missing en route to Beijing and is still yet to be located.
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