News Air Algérie Flight Goes Missing

[Codz]

An Air Algérie MD-83 with 116 on board seems to have gone missing over Mali. Hopefully this isn't another total loss of aircraft.

Air Algérie lost contact with Flight 5017 after takeoff from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, as the jetliner headed to Algiers with 116 people on board, Algeria's state news agency and the plane's operator said Thursday.

Contact with the Boeing Co. BA -2.34% MD-83, carrying 110 passengers and six crew members, was lost at about 1:55 a.m. local time, 50 minutes after the jet had taken off, the Algerian government's official news agency said in a statement. "Air Algérie launched [an] emergency plan," the agency added. It gave no other details.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/spains-swiftair-loses-contact-with-air-algerie-flight-1406196420

 

[fsci123]

Hopefully it wasn't shot down by the rebels over there...

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Reports are confirming it crashed.

 

[Kyle]

Looks like it was brought down by a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) in the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Those types of systems are noted for their extreme turbulence and the flight was asking for a change of flight plan to avoid one before they went missing. The Air France flight in 2009 went down for the exact same reason.

 

[ex-orbinaut]

:facepalm:...

 

[sorindafabico]

2014: worst year in civil aviation?

 

[Screamer7]

2014: worst year in civil aviation?

And we are only halfway through 2014.
Let's hope that the rest of the year is more uneventful.
So many lives... It's just unimaginable!

 

[SpaceEagle]

Looks like it was brought down by a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) in the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Those types of systems are noted for their extreme turbulence and the flight was asking for a change of flight plan to avoid one before they went missing. The Air France flight in 2009 went down for the exact same reason.

All da time here in the Philippines, there is an ITCZ between Visayas and Mindanao, and many planes were flying above that ITCZ and none crashed.

 

[jroly]

 

[boogabooga]

2014: worst year in civil aviation?

There was a commuter that went down in Taiwan as well.

 

[SpaceEagle]

MH370 had no survivors. MH17 had no survivors. AH5017 had no survivors. All with 7. MH370 and MH17 were Boeing 777. MH17 plane 9M-MRD July 17, 1997 entered service. Crashed July 17, 2014. 17 years of service. Seven as bad luck # this year?

 

[Urwumpe]

MH370 had no survivors. MH17 had no survivors. AH5017 had no survivors. All with 7. MH370 and MH17 were Boeing 777. MH17 plane 9M-MRD July 17, 1997 entered service. Crashed July 17, 2014. 17 years of service. Seven as bad luck # this year?

If we are getting into numerology, we can likely claim that any act that is described by numbers or makes use by numbers can be a sign of bad luck... including numerology.

(I thus avoided using digits here. I promise to keep as much math as possible purely symbolic...)

 

[Evil_Onyx]

2014: worst year in civil aviation?

According to Aviation-safety.net 1972 was the worst with 71 fatal incidents with 2370 casualties. But if you count the casualties on the ground during the 2001 September the 11th, 2001 becomes the top runner at 4000+

 

[astrosammy]

BEA has released images of the trajectory in this pdf today:

http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.ah.5017/presentation.commission.mali.070814.en.pdf