The wreckage of the Air Algerie plane that went missing has been found about 31 miles from the border of Burkina Faso near the village of Boulikessi in Mali, a presidential aide said.

An army general in Burkina Faso who is involved in the search for the missing Air Algerie flight carrying 116 people, claims that a witness saw a plane coming down in Mali.

The Air Algerie flight that went missing over Mali has “probably crashed”, France’s foreign minister said.

An Algerian aviation official says the passenger plane missing over Northern Mali has crashed.

An Air Algerie flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers in northern Africa has disappeared from radar, the official Algerian news agency confirmed.

TECHNICAL failures were the main cause of fatal airliner accidents last year for the first time, it was revealed yesterday.

A Hercules military transport plane crashed into a house shortly after take off from an Algerian airport today, killing at least 17 people, many of them children.

At least 12 people were killed today when a Hercules military transport plane crashed into a house near the Algerian capital.

THE crash of an Air Algerie passenger jet that killed 102 people in the Sahara Desert was probably caused

AN Air Algerie jet crashed shortly after takeoff in southern Algeria yesterday, killing 102 people on board, the airline said. One person survived.

An Algerian airliner crashed shortly after take-off today, killing 102 people on board, the airline said.

All 97 people on board an Algerian airliner died today when it crashed shortly after take-off from a town in the south of the North African country.