Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, has reported loosing contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso to Algiers .

The plane is reported to have been en route to Algiers from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso .

Air traffic control lost contact with the aircraft around 50 minutes after take-off when it was forced to change course because of ‘poor visibility’,
Flight AH 5017 has 110 passengers and six crew on board.