Air Algerie crash in Mali

This item appears on page 18 of the September 2014 issue.

Air Algerie flight AH5017, heading from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, crashed in Mali on July 24, killing all 118 people on board. The flight encountered a sandstorm 50 minutes into the flight, causing the pilots to request a change in course and, later, permission to return to Burkina Faso. 

The black boxes were found and sent to France for investigation.