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Third plane goes down since last week

July 24, 2014
The logo of the Air Algerie company office, at the Opera avenue in Paris Thursday July 24, 2014. A flight operated by Air Algerie has disappeared from radar while traveling from Burkina Faso in West Africa to Algiers. Authorities say it was carrying over 100 passengers and crew when air navigation services lost track of the Swiftair plane 50 minutes after takeoff earlier this morning. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

The logo of the Air Algerie company office, at the Opera avenue in Paris Thursday July 24, 2014. A flight operated by Air Algerie has disappeared from radar while traveling from Burkina Faso in West Africa to Algiers. Authorities say it was carrying over 100 passengers and crew when air navigation services lost track of the Swiftair plane 50 minutes after takeoff earlier this morning. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

An Air Algerie flight carrying 116 people has crashed, Algerian aviation official said Thursday.

Radar contact was lost with Flight 5017 over Mali 50 minutes after it took off from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It was supposed to arrive at Algiers’ Houari Boumediene Airport about four hours later.

According to France’s Transport Minister Frederic Cuvillier, many French people were thought to be on the plane.

This is the third large-scale passenger air disaster in since last week, following the downing of Malaysian Air flight in the Ukraine last Thursday and Wednesday’s crash in Taiwan.