UPDATE: Air Algerie Flight #AH5017: Plane Reportedly Crashes Near Mali With 116 Onboard - HUFF POST

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An Air Algerie plane has reportedly crashed over Niger with 116 onboard after it was forced to divert due to a sandstorm.
Flight AH5017 was flying from Burkina Faso to Algiers across the Sahara when Algerian aviation authorities lost contact with the aircraft, about 50 minutes after take-off, the APS state news agency reported on Thursday.

There have been mixed reports about the location of the plane, with the head of Mali's National Civil Aviation Agency saying that a search was under way for the missing flight.
"We do not know if the plane is Malian territory," Issa Saly Maiga told Reuters. "Aviation authorities are mobilised in all the countries concerned - Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Algeria and even Spain."
The Air Algerie flight disappeared over northern Mali, France's transport minister said. The passenger airliner was last seen at 0155 GMT, when it was flying over Gao, Mali, the airline added. It should have landed at 0510.
Gao is about 300 miles from Niamey, Niger, where it has been reported that the plane came down.
The city is not on the flight route for the plane but officials said it had been diverted due to poor visibility.
The plane was asked to change route at 01.38 (02.38 UK time) because of a powerful sandstorm, the Burkina Faso transport minister said.
Many French passengers are expected to have been on the flight, France's transport minister said.
"There were likely French people on board, and if there were French people on board there were certainly many of them," Frederic Cuvillier told reporters.
An Air Algerie spokesman in Burkina Faso said that 50 on board are French, Reuters reported.
The plane was chartered from Spanish airline Swiftair who said in a statement that the aircraft was an MD83 and first announced that they were unable to establish contact with the plane.
Flight AH5017 flew the Ouagadougou-Algiers route four times a week, AFP news agency reported.
Ougadougou is in a nearly straight line south of Algiers, passing over Mali where unrest continues in the north. 

The country is currently considered a "high risk" flight zone by US airlines, according to the Wall Street Journal graphic.
The downing of the Air Algerie plane comes a week to the day after the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in which 298 people died.

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