Awesome

[Adam]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/24/world/africa/air-algerie-flight/

 

[arch stanton]

 

There were few clear indications of what might have happened to the aircraft, or whether there were casualties, but Burkina Faso Transport Minister Jean Bertin Ouedrago said it asked to change route at 0138 GMT because of a storm in the area.

"I can confirm that it has crashed," the Algerian official told Reuters, declining to be identified or give any details about what had happened to the aircraft on its way north.

Almost half of the passengers were French citizens, an airline official said.

 

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/us-algeria-flight-idUSKBN0FT0YK20140724

 

Not a good time to be a Euro traveling on a non-Euro airline.

[Adam]

Crashed in Mali per reports

[floplag]

... yeah, cancelling summer travel plans

[Lhalo]

Castro's niece may have been on the plane.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

"...what authorities describe as 'an apparent crash'."

 

"Yes, there is a plane in tiny pieces on the ground, but we don't know whether it crashed or whether maybe it landed and just fell apart on the ground afterward."

 

Anyone who boards a plane flown by any African airline is rolling the dice with his life.