(Bloomberg) — An international salvage force including United Nations and French troops rushed to secure the site of the downed Air Algerie MD-83, which crashed in Mali en route to Algiers from Burkina Faso, leaving no survivors.
The group, which includes more than 200 French and Malian soldiers, was deployed to a thinly populated semi-arid area near the Burkina Faso border where Flight AH5017 crashed at about 2 a.m. yesterday. The plane, carrying 110 passengers and six crew, was formally identified by the French military earlier today, which has secured the site and found one black box.
“The plane has disintegrated and we have only seen fragments and pieces of bodies,” Burkina Faso Prime Minister Luc-Adolphe Tiao said at a press conference in Ouagadougou, the capital. Identifying bodies may be difficult, he said.
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