Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, has reported losing 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.