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[QUOTE]Flight 5017 vanished off the radar early Thursday over northern Mali while a heavy storm pounded the area.
The airline tweeted that the plane likely went down in Tilemsi, about 70 km from the city of Gao, capital of Mali’s Goa region.
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Authorities say a flight operated by Air Algerie carrying 110 passengers and a crew of six has disappeared from the radar on a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers.
Two French fighter planes have been flying over the region looking for signs of wreckage, but have yet to find anything, France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Thursday.
"Despite an intensive search, at the moment I see no trace of the aircraft has been found," Fabius told reporters in Paris. "The plane has probably crashed."[/QUOTE]
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