Doomed Air Algerie Flight Asked to Turn Back Before CrashShortly before ground controllers lost contact with Air Algerie Flight 5017, the airliners crew requested to abandon its journey to Algiers and head back to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, eyeing foul weather on the radar. The plane crashed in a remote corner of Mali shortly thereafter, killing all 118 passengers and crew members onboard. Its black box flight recorders arrived in Paris on Monday, AFP reports, offering investigators insight into the July 24 tragedy — the third airline disaster in just over a week, coming after the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over the Ukraine and the unsuccessful landing of TransAsia Airways Flight 222 in Taiwan. Authorities had previously known that the Air Algerie plane requested a change of route but not a return to its point of origin. [AFP] ...read moreBy Nash Jenkins Shortly before ground controllers lost contact with Air Algerie Flight 5017, the airliners crew requested to abandon its journey to Algiers and head back to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, eyeing foul weather on the radar. The plane crashed in a remote corner of Mali shortly thereafter, killing all 118 passengers and crew members onboard. Its black box flight recorders arrived in Paris on Monday, AFP reports, offering investigators insight into the July 24 tragedy — the third airline disaster in just over a week, coming after the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over the Ukraine and the unsuccessful landing of TransAsia Airways Flight 222 in Taiwan. Authorities had previously known that the Air Algerie plane requested a change of route but not a return to its point of origin. [AFP] ...read more Source: Time ift.tt/1gB4pon
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 05:54:40 +0000
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