PHOTOS: Air Algerie plane crash kills 118
July 25, 2014
A handout photo released on July 25, 2014 by ECPAD shows French soldiers standing by the wreckage of the Air Algerie flight AH5017 which crashed in Mali's Gossi region, west of Gao, on July 24. The first images of the Air Algerie crash site in Mali emerged on July 25, showing a stark terrain littered with bits of a plane that appears to have been pulverized on impact. France announced there were no survivors among the 118 people on board the Air Algerie flight that crashed over Mali, saying bad weather was the likely cause of the disaster. AFP PHOTO / ECPAD RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / ECPAD" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS NO ARCHIVES - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - TO BE USED WITHIN 30 DAYS FROM JULY 25, 2014-/AFP/Getty Images ( 531920611 )
Relatives of Lebanese passenger Mohamed Akhdar, 23, who was aboard the Air Algerie plane that crashed over Mali, mourn at the familys home in the village of Zrairiyeh in south Lebanon on July 25, 2014. AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images ( 531916815 )
This photo provided on Friday, July 25, 2014, by the Burkina Faso Military shows the site of the plane crash in Mali. French soldiers secured a black box from the Air Algerie wreckage site in a desolate region of restive northern Mali on Friday, the French president said. Terrorism hasn't been ruled out as a cause, although officials say the most likely reason for the catastrophe that killed all onboard is bad weather. (AP Photo/Burkina Faso Military) ( Mali Algeria Plane )
This photo provided on Friday, July 25, 2014, by the Burkina Faso Military shows a part of the plane at the crash site, in Mali. French soldiers secured a black box from the Air Algerie wreckage site in a desolate region of restive northern Mali on Friday, the French president said. (AP Photo/Burkina Faso Military) ( Mali Algeria Plane )
Relatives of passengers killed in the crash of the Air Algeria flight AH017 attend a crisis cell meeting at Ouagadougou airport in Burkina Faso on July 25, 2014. France announced on July 25 there were no survivors among the 118 people on board the Air Algerie flight that crashed over Mali, saying bad weather was the likely cause of the disaster. AFP PHOTO / AHMED OUOBA/AFP/Getty Images ( 531919575 )
A handout photo released on July 25, 2014 by ECPAD shows the wreckage of the Air Algerie flight AH5017 which crashed in Mali's Gossi region, west of Gao, on July 24. The first images of the Air Algerie crash site in Mali emerged on July 25, showing a stark terrain littered with bits of a plane that appears to have been pulverized on impact. France announced there were no survivors among the 118 people on board the Air Algerie flight that crashed over Mali, saying bad weather was the likely cause of the disaster. AFP PHOTO / ECPAD RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / ECPAD" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS NO ARCHIVES - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - TO BE USED WITHIN 30 DAYS FROM JULY 25, 2014-/AFP/Getty Images ( 531920534 )
This photo provided Friday July 25, 2014 by the French army shows the site of the plane crash in Mali, taken by night by a Reaper drone with InfraRed technology. French soldiers secured a black box from the Air Algerie wreckage site in a desolate region of restive northern Mali on Friday, the French president said. (AP Photo/ECPAD) ( Mali Algeria Plane )
This photo provided Friday July 25, 2014 by the French army shows a helicopter at the site of the plane crash in Mali. French soldiers secured a black box from the Air Algerie wreckage site in a desolate region of restive northern Mali on Friday, the French president said. (AP Photo/ECPAD) ( Mali Algeria Plane )
Relatives of the Deheini family who were aboard the Air Algerie plane that crashed over Mali, mourn at the family's home in the village of al-Kharayeb in south Lebanon on July 25, 2014. AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images ( 531917243 )
This photo provided Friday, July 25, 2014 by the French army shows the site of the plane crash in Mali. French soldiers secured a black box from the Air Algerie wreckage site in a desolate region of restive northern Mali on Friday, the French president said. (AP Photo/ECPAD) ( Mali Algeria Plane )
French Defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian delivers a press conference at the Elysee Palace on June 25, 2014 with behind him an image released by ECPAD showing the location of the crash of the Air Algerie flight AH5017 in Mali's Gossi region, west of Gao. The first images of the Air Algerie crash site in Mali emerged on July 25, showing a stark terrain littered with bits of a plane that appears to have been pulverised on impact. France announced there were no survivors among the 118 people on board the Air Algerie flight that crashed over Mali the day before, saying bad weather was the likely cause of the disaster. AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTINSTEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images ( 531920694 )
A picture taken on June 7, 2014 at the Arrecife-Lanzarote airport shows the plane which crashed on July 24, 2014, a Swiftair McDonnell Douglas MD-83, registered EC-LTV. The wreckage of the Air Algerie plane, operated by Swiftair, missing since early on July 24, 2014 with 116 people on board has been found in Mali near the Burkina Faso border, an army coordinator in Burkina Faso and the French presidency said on July 25. AFP PHOTO/Florencio Martin MelianFlorencio Martin Melian/AFP/Getty Images ( 531910607 )
Amadou Ouedraogo poses with pictures of his brother, Seydou and his family who were aboard the Air Algerie plane that crashed over Mali, on July 25, 2014 in Remouille, near Nantes, western France. France announced on July 25 there were no survivors among the passengers and crew, saying bad weather was the likely cause of the disaster. The wreckage of the McDonnell Douglas 83 plane, operated by Spanish charter firm Swiftair on behalf of Air Algerie, was located 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of the Burkina Faso border in Mali's Gossi region. AFP PHOTO / JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD/AFP/Getty Images ( 531918664 )
A handout photo released on July 25, 2014 by ECPAD shows a part of the fuselage of the Air Algerie flight AH5017 which crashed in Mali's Gossi region, west of Gao, on July 24. The first images of the Air Algerie crash site in Mali emerged on July 25, showing a stark terrain littered with bits of a plane that appears to have been pulverised on impact. France announced there were no survivors among the 118 people on board the Air Algerie flight that crashed over Mali, saying bad weather was the likely cause of the disaster. AFP PHOTO / ECPAD /AFP/Getty Images ( 531920516 )
Vehicles are parked outside the Houari Boumedienne international airport near Algiers, Algeria, Thursday, July 24, 2014. An Air Algerie flight carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso to Algeria's capital disappeared from radar early Thursday over northern Mali and "probably crashed" according to the plane's owner and government officials in France and Burkina Faso. (AP Photo/Sidali Djarboub) ( Algeria Plane )
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