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Algerian plane goes missing with 116 people on board

An Air Algerie aircraft similar to the one reported missing

ALGIERS: Air Algerie said Thursday it had lost contact with one of its passenger aircraft nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso bound for Algiers.

A company source told AFP that the missing aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and that some 110 people of various nationalities are listed as being on board the flight.

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