Algeria plane crash leaves over 100 dead
12 Feb 2014 5:53 AM IST
The plane - reported to be a Hercules C-130 - crashed in a mountainous area of Oum al-Bouaghi province, en route to Constantine.
An ‘informed source’ told Ennahar radio station a badly injured survivor had been found and taken to hospital.
The plane is said to have been carrying military personnel and family members. Women and children were among the dead, officials said.
Its original departure point is believed to have been the Sahara Desert garrison city of Tamanrasset, 1,500km south of Constantine, but it had made a stop in Ouargla.
The source told Ennahar - which has close links to the government and army - that contact was lost with the military plane between Oum al-Bouaghi and Constantine, as it may have been starting to make its descent prior to landing.
It crashed into Djebel Fertas mountain, some 380km east of the capital Algiers, senior military official Col Lahmadi Bouguern was quoted as saying on state media. He said bad weather and gusty winds were the probable cause of the crash.
The plane was carrying 99 passengers - soldiers and their families - as well as four crew members, a security source told a news agency.
Military plane crashes in Algeria, 103 dead - TV An Air Algerie Boeing 737 crashed on take-off from Tamanrasset in 2003, killing all but one of the 103 people on board.
An ‘informed source’ told Ennahar radio station a badly injured survivor had been found and taken to hospital.
The plane is said to have been carrying military personnel and family members. Women and children were among the dead, officials said.
Its original departure point is believed to have been the Sahara Desert garrison city of Tamanrasset, 1,500km south of Constantine, but it had made a stop in Ouargla.
The source told Ennahar - which has close links to the government and army - that contact was lost with the military plane between Oum al-Bouaghi and Constantine, as it may have been starting to make its descent prior to landing.
It crashed into Djebel Fertas mountain, some 380km east of the capital Algiers, senior military official Col Lahmadi Bouguern was quoted as saying on state media. He said bad weather and gusty winds were the probable cause of the crash.
The plane was carrying 99 passengers - soldiers and their families - as well as four crew members, a security source told a news agency.
Military plane crashes in Algeria, 103 dead - TV An Air Algerie Boeing 737 crashed on take-off from Tamanrasset in 2003, killing all but one of the 103 people on board.
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