Breaking: Algeria Passenger Plane Loses Contact With Control Tower As It Tries To Fly In From Burkina Faso

Algeria's national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso.



Contact was lost about 50 minutes
after take-off from Ouagadougou, the airline is quoted by Algeria's state news agency as saying.




The passenger airline was bound for Algiers, it added.



It is unclear how many passengers were aboard flight AH 5017, Reuters news agency reports.