(25 Jul 2014) French president Francois Hollande announced Friday that there were no survivors in the crash of the MD-83 aircraft, which disappeared from radar less than an hour after it took off early Thursday from Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, for Algiers.
"The Air Algerie plane flying with 51 French citizens aboard has been found last night at Gossi, east of Mali near the border with Burkina Faso."
"There are, alas, no survivors," he added.
The plane had requested permission to change course due to bad weather.
Speaking after a crisis meeting, Hollande also announced that one of the aircraft's two black boxes has been found in the wreckage and is being taken to the northern Mali city of Gao.
Hollande also said a military unit had been sent to secure the site in restive northern Mali where an Air Algerie plane, owned by Spanish company Swiftair and leased by Algeria's flagship carrier, crashed with the loss of 116 people.
Nearly half the 110 passengers aboard the plane were French, and France is deeply shaken by the incident.
The passengers were: 51 French, 27 Burkina Faso nationals, eight Lebanese, six Algerians, five Canadians, four Germans, two Luxembourg nationals, one Swiss, one Belgian, one Egyptian, one Ukrainian, one Nigerian, one Cameroonian and one Malian, according to Burkina Faso's Transport Minister Jean Bertin Ouedraogo.
The six crew members were Spanish, according to the Spanish pilots' union.
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