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1>AH5017Air Algerie plane crash: mystery of how the plane
came down in terrorist heartland:Air Algerie flight disappeared
from radar screens over Mali 50 minutes after take off en route
from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers and
six crew on board including 51 French nationals.File photo: Air
Algerie plane parking in the international airport of
Algiers.Almost exactly a week after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
was shot down by a surface-to-air missile while flying over
Ukraine, officials were unable to providean explanation for the
crash in Africa.However, there was speculation the plane crash was
an act of terrorism.The Air Algerie flight disappeared from radar
screens over Mali 50 minutes aftertake off en route from
Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers at 1.47am local time over
Mali.The pilot had contacted Nigers control tower in Niamey to
change course because of a storm in the Sahara,Many were said to be
expatriates travelling back to France for the holidays. In the
hours after the flight was reported to be missing.After a day of
fruitless searches, the missing jet had been spotted
betweenAguelhoc and Kidal an inhospitable area in the desert and a
hotbed of Islamist extremism.PICT:Site of the Air Algerie flight
AH5017 plane crash in Mali (ECPAD/AP)Before vanishing, the pilots
sent a final message to ask Niger air control to change its route
because of heavy rain, Burkina Faso Transport Minister Jean Bertin
Ouedraogo said.
Contact was lost with the McDonnell-Douglas 83 at 1.47am, a
little after the pilots said they were diverting from the route due
to weather reasons,
2>MH370/MAS370:Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370)[a]
was a scheduled international passenger flight from Kuala Lumpur to
Beijing that disappeared on 8 March 2014 at 01:20 MYT (17:20 UTC, 7
March),[b] after losing contact with air traffic controlless than
an hour after takeoff.[3] At 07:24, Malaysia Airlines (MAS)
reported the flight missing.[4] The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER,
was carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 15
nations.The flight's signal was lost on secondary radar, and was
soon[8][9] extended tothe Strait of Malacca and Andaman
Sea.[10][11][12] On 15 March, based on military radar data and
transmissions between the aircraft and an Inmarsat satellite, i
nvestigators concluded that the aircraft had diverted from its
intended course and headed west across the Malay Peninsula, then
continued on a northern or southern track for around seven
hours.There has been no confirmation of any flight
debris,[22][23][24][25][26] and nocrash site has been found,[27]
resulting in many unofficial theories about its disappearance. The
only evidence of the flight path after disappearing from military
radar over the Andaman Sea is communications between the aircraft
and a satellite over the Indian Ocean.On 24 March, the Malaysian
government, noting that the final location determinedby the
satellite communication was far from any possible landing sites,
concluded that "flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.On
4 June 2014 Australian researchers released an audio recording of
an underwater sound that they considered might be related to the
final moments of the aircr
aft.Lack of evidence in determining the cause of Flight 370's
disappearance, indeedeven physical evidence that the aircraft
crashed, raises many issues regarding responsibility for the
accident and payments made by insurance agencies. Under
international aviation law, it is the carrier's responsibility to
prove lack of fault in an accident.On 9 March 2014, members of the
Chinese news media received an open letter thatclaimed to be from
the leader of the Chinese Martyrs Brigade, a previously unknown
group. The letter claimed that the loss of flight MH370 was in
retaliation for the Chinese government's response to the knife
attacks at Kunming railway stat
