/ 03/ 2014 09:22 by Mathieu Olivier and Benjamin RogerDiminuer font size Increase font size Print E-mail Share this article Scene from the movie Snakes on a plane . Scene from the movie Snakes on a plane. © Screenshot The mystery of flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines, missing for more than ten days, interests , as far as concerned . This is however not the first that aviation is reflected in the spotlight, including Africa . While the mystery of flight MH 370 Malaysia Airlines, disappeared on the night of March 7 , remains unresolved , theories, sometimes conspiracy rife about the fate of 227 passengers. Disappearance ? Diversion ? Or maybe something more unusual? The history of aviation is not unprecedented . Jeune Afrique has identified 10 events in the African sky . Some are tragic . Other less . Boeing disappeared The MH370 is not the first aircraft to mysteriously disappear. On 25 May 2003, Quatro de Fevereiro the Luanda airport , two mechanics - an American flight officer , Ben Charles Padilla, and his Congolese aid, John Mikel Mutantu - preparing the flight 844AA , a Boeing 727-223 American company Airlines. According to a survey of Air & Space magazine , an air traffic controller on duty suddenly sees the plane ride and then accelerate on a track. It fails to come into contact with the cockpit , the communication tools were cut . A few minutes later, the AA 844 is in the Angolan sky , flying towards the Atlantic Ocean. Its trace will never be found , and ten years later, the mystery of his disappearance remains unsolved. air Cocaine Early November 2009 , the carcass of a Boeing 727-200 burned is found in the desert of Mali , in the Gao region . The plane, which came from Venezuela , carrying several tons of cocaine . After landing on a summary prepared runways , it fails to take off again and remains grounded . Drug traffickers are then put fire to remove all traces of their passage and then evaporate in the desert , driving 4x4 loaded white powder. The case that the Malian authorities have tried to stifle leads to the arrest of nine people, including a French and Spanish . According to LExpress, all the suspects received a dismissal and a release in January and August 2012. The assault December 24, 1994 , four Algerian terrorists Armed Islamic Group ( GIA) take control of Air France Flight 8969 on the tarmac of the airport of Algiers Houari Boumediene . The attackers are demanding to fly to Paris . Their application is refused by the forces of order Algerian who quickly surrounded the Airbus. Will follow nearly 40 hours of hostage taking, during which three passengers are carried by the jihadist commando . On December 26, at 2:00 am, Algiers, under pressure from Paris , AF8969 allows to take off. In accordance with what had been negotiated with the hijackers , the plane lands half past one later in Marseille -Marignane to refuel . He remained there until late afternoon , chosen by the GIGN , special forces of the French gendarmerie time for the assault. Broadcast live on television, it results in the death of four terrorists. Nine policemen and six passengers were injured but are doing live . When an officer asked for political asylum On 17 February 2014, an Ethiopian Airlines plane carrying the Addis Ababa -Rome is hijacked by its own ... copilot. In flight, Hailedemin Abera Tagegn , aged 31 , took advantage of the absence of the captain , who went to the toilet, to lock in the cockpit . Feeling threatened in Ethiopia , he would have committed the act to seek political asylum in Switzerland. The plane, supported by aircraft of Italian and French fighter finally lands safely at Geneva. As the co-pilot , he was arrested by the police then heard by the Swiss justice. splashdown macabre The hijacking of Ethiopian Airlines flight 961 , a Boeing 767 to join Addis Ababa to Abidjan via Nairobi , Brazzaville and Lagos is one of the deadliest in the history of the African aviation. November 23, 1996, three young Ethiopians take control of the cabin while the aircraft just entering the Kenyan airspace. They announce that they seek political asylum and ask the driver to take the lead of Australia. Despite repeated about the lack of fuel warnings, the captain was forced to fly to the east. With the approach of the Comoros, the plane crashes kerosene and two reactors intersect . Both drivers then try an emergency landing less than 500 meters from the coast . 123 of the 175 passengers and crew , as well as the hijackers , were killed in this terrible crash . The tourist driver November 28, 2012, the Department of the South African Defence announces a new , rather unusual . It has indeed sanction a pilot of the Air Force who had the bad idea to borrow a military aircraft from its base. Tourists in uniform , a little too confident, simply wanted to visit a friend in neighboring Botswana . Anxious to save time by avoiding a regular route , bold finally received a suspension of flight and a layoff. Libyan method Read on Jeuneafrique : Aviation | Diversions, disappearances, crashes ... The ten highlights of the African aviation | Jeuneafrique - the premier information site and news about Africa Follow us : @ jeune_afrique on Twitter | jeuneafrique1 on Facebook
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