Air Algerie Plane Broke Up On Impact, Say Investigators

Paris (AFP) - An Air Algerie flight that crashed in Mali killing all 116 people on board broke up on impact after losing air speed and banking sharply, investigators said on Thursday.

Presenting the initial findings of a probe into the July 24 tragedy, Remi Jouty, the head of France's Bureau of Investigations and Analyses (BEA) air safety agency, also told reporters that the cockpit voice recording was currently unusable.

Air Algerie Flight AH5017 Disappears From Radar



An Air Algerie Flight AH5017 traveling from Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers and six crew members on board was reported missing and disappeared from radar. It was confirmed Friday that passenger plane crashed in a desolate region of restive northern Mali; Authorities lost contact to the MD83 plane 50 minutes after jet took off from Burkina Faso bound for Algiers.