Algeria | 11 April 2018:
A military plane crashed in northern Algeria, near to the capital city Algiers, on Wednesday at around 7:50 a.m. local time and it is learned by way of the country's Defence Ministry 247 passengers and ten crew members have been killed. Some survivors have been pulled with deep burns caused by the burning wreckage.
More than 300 rescue workers have been deployed at the crash scene and eye witnesses said they saw flames coming out of the engines.
State-run Radio Algerie said the crash happened shortly after the plane took off from the Boufarik air base for Tindouf in southern Algeria and further to Bashar. Both the towns are on the border of Algeria and Morocco.
Tindouf is home to many refugees of neighboring Western Sahara, which is a disputed territory that Morocoo claims to be its own land while Polisario has established its self-declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic here.
The Western Sahara was earlier a colony of Spain. In 1975 the Spanish left and for many years attempts of UN have failed to broker a settlement.
The crash was deadliest for Algerian military since 2014 in which 77 people were killed. It was a Hercules C-130 plane and was carrying memebrs of air force and their families.
In the same year a Malaysian airlines jet too was shot down over Ukraine and 298 people were killed.
According to Algerian TV station Ennahar the crashed plane was a soviet-era Ilyushin.
Aviation safety record is not good in Algeria. A flight carrying 116 people in 2014 crashed in Mali and all on-board were killed. It was flying from Algeria to Bukina Faso.
In 2003 a civilian airline crashed on the runway of Tamanrasset and 102 people were killed.
References
Source 1: Algerian military plane crash kills 257 people
Source 2: Military plane crashes in Algeria killing 257, Defence Ministry reports
Author Twinkle Brar
A military plane crashed in northern Algeria, near to the capital city Algiers, on Wednesday at around 7:50 a.m. local time and it is learned by way of the country's Defence Ministry 247 passengers and ten crew members have been killed. Some survivors have been pulled with deep burns caused by the burning wreckage.
More than 300 rescue workers have been deployed at the crash scene and eye witnesses said they saw flames coming out of the engines.
State-run Radio Algerie said the crash happened shortly after the plane took off from the Boufarik air base for Tindouf in southern Algeria and further to Bashar. Both the towns are on the border of Algeria and Morocco.
Tindouf is home to many refugees of neighboring Western Sahara, which is a disputed territory that Morocoo claims to be its own land while Polisario has established its self-declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic here.
The Western Sahara was earlier a colony of Spain. In 1975 the Spanish left and for many years attempts of UN have failed to broker a settlement.
The crash was deadliest for Algerian military since 2014 in which 77 people were killed. It was a Hercules C-130 plane and was carrying memebrs of air force and their families.
In the same year a Malaysian airlines jet too was shot down over Ukraine and 298 people were killed.
According to Algerian TV station Ennahar the crashed plane was a soviet-era Ilyushin.
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Aviation safety record is not good in Algeria. A flight carrying 116 people in 2014 crashed in Mali and all on-board were killed. It was flying from Algeria to Bukina Faso.
In 2003 a civilian airline crashed on the runway of Tamanrasset and 102 people were killed.
References
Source 1: Algerian military plane crash kills 257 people
Source 2: Military plane crashes in Algeria killing 257, Defence Ministry reports
Author Twinkle Brar
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