Air Algerie Plane

An Air Algeria plane en route to Marseille has been forced to return to Algiers due to an unspecified technical failure.

An Air Algerie flight that crashed in Mali killing all 116 people on board broke up on impact after losing air speed and banking sharply, investigators said on Thursday.

The investigation at the site in northern Mali of the Air Algerie plane crash has been concluded along with the task of collecting the remains of the dead, French police said on Saturday.

Two people originally believed to have travelled on an Air Algerie plane that crashed in Mali last week did not board the flight, reducing the official death toll to 116, a senior official in Burkina Faso said on Friday.

France said on Monday the pilots of the Air Algerie passenger plane that crashed in Mali, killing all 118 people on board, had asked to turn back, in a new development to a tough probe into the tragedy.

France came a step closer Monday to finding out why an Air Algerie plane smashed into the Mali desert last week as black boxes from the crash arrived in Paris.

The black boxes from the Air Algerie plane disaster on Sunday began their journey to France from northern Mali as investigators ramped up efforts to find the cause of the deadly crash.

Mali has opened a judicial probe into the Air Algerie plane disaster as part of international efforts to determine the cause of the crash, Mali's Minister of Solidarity and Humanitarian Action said on Sunday.

French investigators on Sunday scoured through the debris of a shattered Air Algerie jetliner in Mali's remote desert north to get to the cause of the third global air disaster in eight days.

A French girl who died in the Air Algerie plane crash had confided to her teacher she was scared of flying before departing on a trip she was otherwise excited about, an acquaintance said on Friday.

Investigators were due on the site of the Air Algerie plane disaster in Mali today to try and determine why the jetliner came down with such force that it completely disintegrated.

The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali said on Saturday that its experts found the second black box of the Air Algerie plane that fell from the sky and disintegrated in remote northern Mali, killing all 118 people onboard.

Everyone on board an Air Algerie passenger plane that crashed in Mali died in the tragedy, which completely wiped out several families, France announced on Friday.

The Air Algerie plane with more than 100 people on board which crashed over Mali on Thursday was operated by private Spanish charter company Swiftair.

French officials dispatched a military unit to secure the site in restive northern Mali where an Air Algerie plane crashed with the loss of 116 people. France's interior minister said Friday that terrorism cannot be excluded as a cause for the tragedy, though it was likely due to bad weather.

An Air Algeria plane en route to Marseille has been forced to return to Algiers due to an unspecified technical failure.

An Air Algerie flight that crashed in Mali killing all 116 people on board broke up on impact after losing air speed and banking sharply, investigators said on Thursday.

The investigation at the site in northern Mali of the Air Algerie plane crash has been concluded along with the task of collecting the remains of the dead, French police said on Saturday.

Two people originally believed to have travelled on an Air Algerie plane that crashed in Mali last week did not board the flight, reducing the official death toll to 116, a senior official in Burkina Faso said on Friday.

France said on Monday the pilots of the Air Algerie passenger plane that crashed in Mali, killing all 118 people on board, had asked to turn back, in a new development to a tough probe into the tragedy.

France came a step closer Monday to finding out why an Air Algerie plane smashed into the Mali desert last week as black boxes from the crash arrived in Paris.

The black boxes from the Air Algerie plane disaster on Sunday began their journey to France from northern Mali as investigators ramped up efforts to find the cause of the deadly crash.

Mali has opened a judicial probe into the Air Algerie plane disaster as part of international efforts to determine the cause of the crash, Mali's Minister of Solidarity and Humanitarian Action said on Sunday.

French investigators on Sunday scoured through the debris of a shattered Air Algerie jetliner in Mali's remote desert north to get to the cause of the third global air disaster in eight days.

A French girl who died in the Air Algerie plane crash had confided to her teacher she was scared of flying before departing on a trip she was otherwise excited about, an acquaintance said on Friday.

Investigators were due on the site of the Air Algerie plane disaster in Mali today to try and determine why the jetliner came down with such force that it completely disintegrated.

The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali said on Saturday that its experts found the second black box of the Air Algerie plane that fell from the sky and disintegrated in remote northern Mali, killing all 118 people onboard.

Everyone on board an Air Algerie passenger plane that crashed in Mali died in the tragedy, which completely wiped out several families, France announced on Friday.

The Air Algerie plane with more than 100 people on board which crashed over Mali on Thursday was operated by private Spanish charter company Swiftair.

French officials dispatched a military unit to secure the site in restive northern Mali where an Air Algerie plane crashed with the loss of 116 people. France's interior minister said Friday that terrorism cannot be excluded as a cause for the tragedy, though it was likely due to bad weather.