ALGIERS/BAMAKO (Reuters) - Authorities said on Thursday they located the wreckage of an Air Algerie flight after it crashed in northern Mali carrying 116 passengers and crew, nearly half of them French, en route from Burkina Faso to Algeria.
Regional aviation officials said they had lost contact with flight AH5017 at around 0255 BST on Thursday, less than an hour after takeoff, following a request by the pilot to change course due to bad weather.
